Editing Cookstown (section)

==Townlands==
The following is a list of [[townlands]] within Cookstown's urban area, alongside their likely [[etymology|etymologies]]:<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.placenamesni.org/Index.html
 |title=Northern Ireland Placenames Project
 |publisher=placenamesni.org
 |access-date=2012-08-27
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001193620/http://www.placenamesni.org/Index.html
 |archive-date=1 October 2010
}}</ref>
*Clare (from ''Clár'' meaning "level land")
*Cookstown (an English name from Alan Cooke, bishop of Armagh)
*Coolkeeghan (from ''Cúil Caocháin'' meaning "Keighen's corner")
*Coolnafranky (from ''Cúil na Francaigh'' meaning "corner of the rats" or "French")
*Coolnahavil (from ''Cúil na hAbhaill'' meaning "corner of the orchard")
*Coolreaghs (from ''Cúil Riach'' meaning "grey corner")
*[[Gortalowry]] (from ''Gort an Leamhraigh'' meaning "field of the elm place")
*Loy (from ''Láigh'' meaning "hill")
*Maloon (from ''Magh Luan'' meaning "plain of the lambs")
*Monrush (from ''Móin Rois'' meaning "wooded peatland")
*Sullenboy (from ''Sailean Buí'' meaning "yellow willows")
*Tullagh (from ''Tulach'' meaning "hilltop")

===Cookstown townland===
Cookstown townland itself is situated in the historic [[Barony (geographic)|barony]] of [[Dungannon Upper]] and the [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] of [[Derryloran]] and covers an area of 217 acres.<ref>{{cite web| title=Townlands of County Tyrone| work=IreAtlas Townland Database| url=http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/| access-date=19 March 2013| archive-date=28 June 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628231757/http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/| url-status=live}}</ref>

The population of the townland increased overall during the 19th century:<ref name="CI"/><ref>{{cite web| title=Census of Ireland 1851| work=Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland| url=http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/13130/eppi_pages/336885| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419121951/http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/13130/eppi_pages/336885| url-status=dead| archive-date=19 April 2013| access-date=19 March 2013}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! 1841 !! 1851 !! 1861 !! 1871 !! 1881 !! 1891
|-
| Population || 27 || - || 16 || 123 || 119 || 93
|-
| Houses || 5 || 1 || 4 || 23 || 28 || 22
|-
|}