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Cookstown (gbr)

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Cookstown ranks 2,988th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Albania, Konstanz, and Viareggio. Memorable people born in Cookstown include Mary Mallon, Kenny Acheson, and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Cookstown has been the birth place of many soccer players and celebrities. Cookstown is located in United Kingdom.

Cookstown 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 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the 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 processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1869 and 1991, Cookstown was the birth place of 5 globally memorable people, including Mary Mallon, Kenny Acheson, and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.

People Born in Cookstown

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Most individuals born in present day Cookstown were soccer players (2), celebrities (1), racing drivers (1), and politicians (1),  while most who died were .

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Cookstown since 1700.