Armoy

Armoy is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is 9 km southwest of Ballycastle and 13 km northeast of Ballymoney. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 414 people. The village is on the River Bush between two of the nine Glens of Antrim; Glenshesk and Glentaisie. The Armoy area also includes half of Knocklayd mountain.

It is one of the bigger villages in the Moyle area and has a primary school, shops, post office and other community facilities. The village was dominated by public sector housing for many years, but in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a new housing development was built. Many more have been built since then. The River Bush once flowed directly north to the sea at Ballycastle, however, after the last glacial event in Northern Ireland deposited the Armoy Moraine the river was deflected to the west and it now reaches the sea through Bushmills and Portballantrae. On 15 April 1978 RUC officer John Moore was killed by an IRA booby trap bomb attached to his car.