Cookstown

Cooktown (Irish: An Chorr Chráochach ) is a Northern Irish town in County Tyrone, 72 miles west from Belfast and about 60 km south-east of Derry City and administrative headquarters of the district Cooktown.

In Census 2001, the city 10,646 inhabitants, of which 52.8 % had were Catholic and 45.1 % Protestant. It was founded in 1609 by settlers Alan Cook and after destruction in 1760 again.

History

In Cooktown of living space with Ballynagilly lies with remains more than 5000 year old houses, which testify to the settlement in this area since the Neolithic period. The early farmers at the time of the climatic optimum in Atlantikum operated on slash-and- built barley before large parts of the area were for a climate change to the moor.

Worth seeing is the Kyllymoon Castle, situated 1.6 km south-east, built in 1631 and was built in 1803 by John Nash again, and the local museum in a former linen factory. The place was a center of the linen industry.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Mary Mallon (1869-1938), Typhoid Mary ( Typhoid Mary ), first person in the United States, which has been identified as non-diseased carrier of typhoid fever
• Kenny Acheson ( born 1957 ), race car driver
• Aaron Hughes ( born 1979 ), Northern Irish footballer