Flush Bracket, Cookstown

Image: © Rossographer Taken: 12 Jun 2014

Flush bracket bench mark on the rear wall of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cookstown - see Image & Image The number on the bracket is OSNIBM 2002. The mark has been levelled to 75.55 metres above MSL. A note on brackets numbered OSNIBM 2001-2055: all of these are located in County Tyrone and were sited when the county was surveyed in the mid 1930s. At this time counties in Ulster were surveyed individually (with Belfast also subject to its own survey). The plan appeared to be to survey Tyrone (which was completed) and then move onto Armagh, however the Second World War intervened and the latter never happened (they only got as far as establishing 4 flush brackets numbered 2097-2100 in Armagh city and Portadown). After the war ended plans changed and Northern Ireland was surveyed in its entirety for the first time in the 1950s - many of these early flush brackets were reused for that survey (this one was included in the primary line between Magherafelt and Armagh) but some in very obscure locations were never used again. OSNIBM 2001 was located on a primary school in Cookstown but this, like a few others, has been destroyed.

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