Editing Cookstown (section)

{{Short description|Town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland}}
{{about|the town in Northern Ireland|other towns of the same name}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Cookstown
| irish_name = An Chorr Chríochach
| scots_name = Cookestoun<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cookstown.gov.uk/ |title=Cookstown District Council |access-date=15 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904064725/http://www.cookstown.gov.uk/ |archive-date=4 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> or Cookstoon<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/beaghmoreus.pdf |title=Ulster-Scots guide to Beaghmore stone circles – Department of the Environment |access-date=17 July 2012 |archive-date=1 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001234533/http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/beaghmoreus.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
| local_name = 
| label_position = 
| static_image_name = Cookstown crest.jpg
| static_image_width = 120px
| static_image_caption = Cookstown coat of arms
| static_image_alt = Coat of arms with a silver knight's helmet crowned by flames from which arises a firebird. Below the helmet, a shield bears two red right gloves beside a simple castle, above icons of twin bundles of flowers and a gear. A banner with the word FORWARD unfurls below the shield. Leaf-like decoration extends from the helmet, as a surround.
| map_type = Northern Ireland
| coordinates = {{coord|54.647|-6.745|display=inline,title}}
| belfast_distance = 47 miles
| unitary_northern_ireland = [[Mid-Ulster District Council|Mid-Ulster]]
| population = 12,546
| population_ref = ([[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 Census]])
| irish_grid_reference = H8178
| country = Northern Ireland
|historic_county=
|post_town = COOKSTOWN
| postcode_area = BT
| postcode_district = BT80
| dial_code = 028
| constituency_westminster = [[Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Ulster]]
| constituency_ni_assembly = [[Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency)|Mid Ulster]]
| lieutenancy_northern_ireland = [[County Tyrone]]
| website = http://www.midulstercouncil.org
}}
'''Cookstown''' ({{langx|ga|An Chorr Chríochach}},<ref name=logainm>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1416798 | title = An Chorr Chríochach/Cookstown | work = Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) | publisher = [[Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media]] (Ireland) and [[Dublin City University]] | access-date = 12 November 2020}}</ref> {{IPA|ga|ənˠ ˌxoːɾˠ ˈçɾʲiːxəx|}}) is a town in [[County Tyrone]], [[Northern Ireland]]. It is the fourth-largest town in the county and had a population of 12,546 in the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 census]].<ref name="2021 pop"/> It, along with [[Magherafelt]] and [[Dungannon]], is one of the main towns in the [[Ulster|Mid-Ulster]] council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an [[English people|English]] ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the [[Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh|Archbishop of Armagh]], who had been granted the lands after the [[Flight of the Earls]] during the [[Plantation of Ulster]]. It was one of the main centres of the [[linen]] industry west of the [[River Bann]], and until 1956 the flax-related processes of spinning, weaving, bleaching and [[beetling]] were carried out in the town.