placenamesCookstown
An Chorr Chríochach
The 1911 census explains why the town’s population cannot be assigned entirely to its namesake townland.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chorr Chríochach · Irish · main form
- Cookstown · English · main form
Place & story
Four townlands in the urban return
The 1911 census lists urban portions of Cookstown, Gortalowry, Loy and Monrush within Cookstown Urban electoral division. A footnote states that each townland’s remainder lay in Cookstown Rural electoral division. The urban district therefore crossed townland boundaries, rather than coinciding with Cookstown townland alone. [2]
The wider district’s inhabitants
That urban district had 3,685 inhabitants in 1911, comprising 1,641 males and 2,044 females. Of its 848 houses, 785 were occupied, fifty-eight were empty and five were being built. Its population had been 3,888 in 1891 and 3,639 in 1901. These totals describe the urban district across all four townland portions. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Derryloran
- Coordinates
- 54.65103, -6.74610
- Mapped area
- 0.92 km²
- Logainm ID
- 64199 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cookstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, printed p 19 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.