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COOKSTOWN

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COOKSTOWN  , a

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town of Co . Tyrone, Ireland, in the east
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parliamentary division, 54 M . W. by N. of
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Belfast, on branches of the
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Great
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Northern and the Northern Counties (Midland)
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railways . Pop. of urban
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district (1901) 3531 . It consists principally of a single street of great length, and lies in a pleasant, well-wooded district, near the Ballinderry
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river . It has important manufactures of
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linen, and some agricultural trade . It was founded in 1609, the landlord, Allan Cook, giving name to it . The mansion of Killymoon Castle, in the vicinity, is a notable example of the
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work of a celebrated architect, John Nash (c . 1800) .

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