Northern Area Plan 2016
Moyle District: Armoy

Armoy is located adjacent to the A44 Ballymena to Ballycastle road approximately 9 kilometres south west of Ballycastle and 13 kilometres north east of Ballymoney. It is one of the larger villages in Moyle District providing primary education, convenience shopping, a bank and Post Office, and a range of community facilities. The village was dominated by public sector housing for many years, but this imbalance has been redressed to some extent by recent private housing development at the southern end of the village in Fernmount Park. In 2001 population of Armoy was 414.

The commercial and community life of the village has been greatly enhanced by a community regeneration project at the junction of Main Street and Drones Road. The Tilley Molloy Project, implemented under the International Fund for Ireland’s Community Regeneration and Improvement Special Programme (CRISP), was undertaken by Armoy Community Development Association and completed in 2000. This redevelopment of a key derelict site at the entrance to the village provided four shop units, four apartments, community care facilities and public toilets.

The physical environment of the village has been further enhanced by a new Riverside Park developed by the District Council, and an environmental improvement scheme on Main Street carried out as part of the CRISP project.

Armoy is designated a Small Village in the Settlement Hierarchy in Volume 1 of the Plan.

The development limit will consolidate the existing village form, and ensure that any new development is convenient to its facilities.