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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(1):42-45; doi:10.1093/ije/dym140
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Sibling trials in Banbridge, County Down

Alun Evans

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK.

E-mail: a.evans@qub.ac.uk

Accepted 7 June 2007

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The market town of Banbridge in County Down, Northern Ireland, is built astride a drumlin (‘little back’ or hill). It was dumped during the last Ice Age as boulder clay when the great ice sheet scraped rocks from the Ulster hills on its inexorable push south. Along with tens of thousands of other drumlins it forms the celebrated landscape, which Estyn Evans compared to "... a necklace of beads some thirty miles wide suspended between Donegal Bay (in the west) and Strangford Lough (in the east)."1 It was near Banbridge town that the balladeer in an old song "first set eyes" on the object of his amorous aspirations: "She's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann, She's the Star of the County Down."2

Banbridge has a curious, walled cutting in the main street, which was completed in 1834 to ease the gradient of the drumlin.3 It was excavated . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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