It also withdrew passenger services from the former NCC branch lines to Cookstown, Draperstown and Limavady and the Magherafelt — Kilrea section of the Derry Central.

In 1959 the UTA closed the ( by then freight only ) remaining Magherafelt — Kilrea section of the Derry Central and the former GNR ( by then freight only ) branch from Dungannon to Cookstown.

All of Cookstown's main educational institutions date from this period, Cookstown High School being housed in the Victorian mansion and former residence of the Gunning family at Coolnafranky and the Catholic Church constructing its convent schools and St Mary's Boy's School in 1939 ( now demolished and replaced by Holy Trinity Nursery School ), all on Loy Hill.

Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland ( now Northern Ireland ) in the United Kingdom.

Cookstown is a town and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

* Ardboe High Cross and Abbey (), one of the best examples of a 9th / 10th century High cross in Ireland, is 10 miles from Cookstown.

The Cookstown Town Centre Living Initiative ( LOTS ) Scheme ( 2006 – 2011 ) offers substantial grant assistance to reinvigorate unused or derelict space above shops into modern residential living accommodation is considered to be one of the most successful schemes of any town in Northern Ireland.

Cookstown is a town and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Kenneth Henry Acheson ( born November 27, 1957 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland ) is a British former racing driver who participated during the 1983 and 1985 Formula One seasons for the RAM team.

Further military decorations resulted from this period, after which Sinton returned to Northern Ireland and retired to Cookstown.

Beaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8. 5 miles north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains.

On 13 May, the couple were received in Northern Ireland, and visited such areas as County Fermanagh, Cookstown, and Omagh.

Tullywiggan ( possibly ) is a small village outside Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Tullyhogue Fort, also spelt Tullaghoge or Tullahoge ( from Middle Irish Tulach Óc meaning " hill of youth " or " mound of the young warriors "), is large mound on the outskirts of Tullyhogue village near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

The local authority, Cookstown District Council, was established in 1973, and includes part of County Londonderry, notably the villages of Moneymore, The Loup and Ballyronan.

* Killymoon Castle, near Cookstown, County Tyrone, ( 1801-7 )*.

* 80-82 Chapel Street, Cookstown, County Tyrone.

Devlin was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone and raised as a Roman Catholic.

A raid on an RIC barracks in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in June 1920, was carried out with the help of sympathetic RIC men.

In 1899 he married Mina Lowry of Rockdale near Cookstown in County Tyrone.

* Annaghone, near Cookstown, County Tyrone ( ) Irish grid ref H 84494 74047.

In 1955 the UTA closed the ( by then freight-only ) branches to Cookstown and Limavady, and the line between Castlewellan and Newcastle, County Down ( which was worked by the GNR ).

From Cookstown, County Tyrone, Craig was educated at Royal School Dungannon, Larne Grammar School and Queen's University Belfast.

He died at his home at Slaghtfreedan Lodge, Cookstown, County Tyrone, on 25 March 1956 and was buried with full military honours on 28 March at Claggan Presbyterian cemetery in Cookstown.

Wicklow County Council recently removed much of the railway embankment in road widening, but left the bridge, which is directly opposite the ornate bridge carrying the watermain over the Cookstown River, a tributary of the River Dargle.

The club, founded in 1970, hails from Coagh, near Cookstown, County Tyrone.

* Nov 2008: Sinn Féin claimed that the OV was responsible for planting a pipe bomb near the home of a Sinn Féin councillor in Cookstown, County Tyrone.

* 9 Mar 2009: The OV claimed responsibility for planting a pipe bomb at Sinn Féin's office on Burn Road in Cookstown, County Tyrone.

Cookstown District Council (; Ulster Scots: Districk Cooncil o Cookestoun ) is a district council covering an area largely in County Tyrone and partly in County Londonderry.

Killed in a land mine attack at Teebane Crossroads, near Cookstown, County Tyrone, while on a civilian bus carrying workers from an Ulster Defence Regiment base.

It consisted of the Townships of Mono and Mulmur in the County of Dufferin, the Townships of Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore in the County of Peel, and, in the county of Simcoe, the Town of Alliston and the Townships of Adjala, Tosorontio and Essa ( excluding the Village of Cookstown ), and the Town of Orangeville.

* Lissan House lies on the outskirts of Cookstown.

Two railways established termini at Cookstown-the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in their dressed stone station designed by Charles Lanyon ( now much altered as a Chinese restaurant on Molesworth Street ) and the Great Northern Railway in their brick station next door ( now Cookstown High School's Hockey Club ).

The New Hanover Township School District, consisting of New Hanover Township ( including the Cookstown area ) and Wrightstown Borough, sends students to the district on a tuition basis for grades 9-12 as part of a sending / receiving relationship.

Wrightstown and neighboring Cookstown were put in the national spotlight when six Islamic militants, dubbed " The Fort Dix Six ", were arrested while trying to carry out an attack against Fort Dix on May 7, 2007.

The New Hanover Township School District, consisting of New Hanover Township ( including the Cookstown area ) and Wrightstown Borough, sends students to the district on a tuition basis for grades 9-12 as part of a sending / receiving relationship.

Nevertheless, Dargan was able to carry out the work on the Cookstown extension speedily and the line was deemed to be ready for a Board of Trade inspection on 13 October 1856.

A stopping train from Belfast to Ballymena derailed on a crossover at Cookstown Junction.

Later, vacated army camps were used as POW centres, those on the NCC being near Dunloy and Cookstown.

Their bodies were recovered the following day and Harper was buried in Cookstown on December 9.

Popular places of tourist interest include the An Creagán centre, located three miles north of Carrickmore on the main Cookstown to Omagh road.

Concurrently in Simcoe County, the independent infantry and rifle companies in Barrie, Collingwood, Cookstown, Bradford, Oro and Orillia were organized into the 35th Battalion of Infantry ( Simcoe Foresters ), which was also Gazetted on 14 September 1866.

It lies in the heart of the county on a raised site colloquially called " The Rock "; between Cookstown, Dungannon and Omagh.

Ball, who grew up on a farm near Cookstown, originally looked at electrical engineering as a career, but it was his application to the Toronto Daily Star, with only a few sample correspondence school art lessons under his belt, that got him hired as a graphic artist in 1932.