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Cookstown, A New Town: Founding and Development
Paperback
General World HistoryIrish History
ISBN13: 9781848904767
Publisher: College Publications
Published: May 30 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.23 Width: 8.25 Depth: 10.75
Language: English
T J Parke grew up in Cookstown. He trained as a geographer and a town planner At an early stage in his career he worked under Gilbert Camblin in the Northern Ireland Civil Service. In Camblin's book The Town in Ulster, the establishment of Cookstown was described as one of the boldest attempts at town building during the whole of Ulster's history.
The book sets William Stewart's town building project in the context of events in Irish history which were relevant to development in this part of Ulster. It places particular emphasis on the planning and consequences of the Plantation of Ulster. The role of Scottish settlers in the Cookstown area during the Plantation is described and it also considers the impact of Scottish migrants fleeing the famine conditions of the Ill Years in Scotland at the end of the 17th Century. It takes the development of the town through the demise of the Stewart fortunes, the emergence of linen businessmen as owners of the town and then the growing influence of local government institutions in the life of the town. The book also documents how, throughout its entire history, the town has played a vital role as the marketplace for the products of the surrounding countryside and how the railway connections greatly enhanced that role. Finally the book describes how the town has responded to the pressures of the modern era.
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