sentences:  Cookstown's famous main street (laid out from c.1735–c.1800), is long and wide, one of the longest, and widest in Ireland.The lands around the present site of Cookstown were, prior to the early 17th century, in the hands of the O'Mellan Clan and were broadly known as "Mellanagh".This land was confiscated by King James I after the Flight of the Earls of Tír Eoghain and Tyrconnell in 1607 and a series of Rebellions in the area which saw the native landlords ousted from their holdings.