In 2003 Cookstown District Council in conjunction with Cookstown Town Centre Forum launched Cookstown's ten year Town Centre Regeneration Strategy and Action Plan which details a range of short, medium and long range regeneration actions.

The town has taken a long term view to regeneration and Cookstown District Council in conjunction with Cookstown Town Centre Forum appointed a Town Strategy Manager to implement Cookstown's Town Centre Regeneration Strategy.

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.

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.

Simcoe Centre consisted of the City of Barrie, the towns of Alliston and Wasaga Beach, the Village of Cookstown and the townships of Essa, Innisfille, Sunnidale, Tosorontio and Vespra.

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 ).

* 80-82 Chapel Street, 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.

On census day ( 29 April 2001 ) there were 10, 646 people living in Cookstown.

Cookstown, being in the heartland of Ulster insurgency, was abandoned to the rebels who immediately seized the important Iron works at Lios Áine ( later Lissan ) and the area became a hotbed of activity as weapons such as pikes were forged for the rebel cause.

Today, Cookstown has been almost completely regenerated with plans for further regeneration work to be carried out throughout the town centre.

* Cookstown Youth is the local football team ( s ) for younger boys and girls

Under the Review of Public Administration ( RPA ) the council is due to merge with Magherafelt District Council and Cookstown District Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 1714 km² and a population of 120, 096.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cheap tickets were also available for those travelling to Belfast ; in 1857, passengers from Cookstown were being urged to experience the view from Cave Hill.

The Cookstown centre is slated for redevelopment in 2013.

* 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 have initiated a tourism plan for visitors and Tullyhogue Fort has become part of its marketing agenda due to its history.

In February 2007 Cookstown District Council confirmed that the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ( DARD ) had agreed to sell the land required to develop Tullyhogue Fort to Council for £ 90, 000.

* In 1981, the Cookstown Hockey Club became the first Northern Irish field hockey team to win a major European competition, the EuroHockey Club Champions Trophy.

He first settled at Cookstown, near York ( Toronto ), where he went into business with his brother.

Other teams include Omagh RFC, Clogher Valley RFC, Cookstown RFC and Strabane RFC.

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.

* The annual Cookstown 100 National Road Race is a motor biking event attended by many motorbiking enthusiasts.

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

* Lissan House lies on the outskirts of Cookstown.

* Killymoon Castle is about south east of Cookstown.

Today, Drum Manor Forest Park is one of Cookstown District's largest tourist attractions ( complete with the highest-rated caravan site in the District ) but the only the ground floor outer walls of the Manor House survive.

When the armies of Charles I reached Cookstown in 1643, they routed the rebels and razed the remains of the town to the ground.

Over the succeeding years, the lands around Cookstown were progressively bought up by William Stewart of Killymoon until in 1671 all of Dr Cooke's lands were in the hands of the Stewart family.

Throughout the remainder of the 18th century, Cookstown prospered quietly as a market town where linens, seeds and other agricultural produce were marketed at its famous market.

With the linen and later the hat-making and brick manufacturing industries, Cookstown continued to prosper in the early 20th century and its population continued to expand.

On 17 June 1920, during the Irish War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) attacked the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks in 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.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Cookstown became the centre of much regimental activity.

This however proved to be the last belle époque of the industrial town of Cookstown.

Cookstown currently has more than a hundred types of businesses operating at its heart.

Cookstown confidently bills itself as the ‘ Retail Capital of Mid Ulster ’ and is at the forefront of those towns which are reinventing retail and communicating the strength of the retailing offer to wider audiences, through a unique Cookstown brand identity ( Cookstown – Looking Good, Looking Great ) and aggressive marketing of the town locally and nationally.