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Cookstown, Northern Ireland - New Houses and HomesCookstown, known before the Plantation of Ulster as Corchrichy, is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county (next to Omagh, Strabane and Dungannon respectively) and had a population of nearly 11,000 people in the 2001 Census. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr Alan Cooke, from the Archibishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry West of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town. Cookstown's famous main street (laid out from c1735–c1800), is 1.25 miles (2.01 km) long and 135 feet (41.15 m) wide, one of the longest main streets in Ireland.
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