Qualla: Armoy https://qualla.com/armoy en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/armoy-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Armoy https://qualla.com/armoy Armoy: Introduction https://qualla.com/armoy/ Photo credit DColt, Public domain. In the late 1970s, four young men from this village - Joey Dunlop, his brother Jim, Mervyn Robinson, and Frank Kennedy - rode motorcycles fast enough to embarrass riders from anywhere in the world. The press called them the Armoy Armada. Joey would go on to become a five-time Formula 1 world champion and the most decorated road racer in Irish history, killed on a circuit in Estonia in 2000 still wearing his trademark yellow helmet. He learned his nerve on the lanes outside Armoy, a small village of just over a thousand people sitting at the foot of two of the nine Glens of Antrim.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/armoy-wp/gcg9-armoy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Armoy: Saint Patrick's Monastery https://qualla.com/armoy/ Photo credit Public domain. Long before motorcycles, the village had another kind of fame. A monastic settlement, founded in the 5th century by Saint Patrick himself according to local tradition, once stood northeast of the present village where St Patrick's Parish Church sits today. Archaeology has dated t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/armoy-wp/gcg9-armoy-saint-patricks-monastery.mp3 0:06 2 full Armoy: The Lagge and the Giant https://qualla.com/armoy/ Photo credit Barmanitan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The river that runs through Armoy is the same River Bush that ends up in Bushmills whiskey, but it has not always taken this route. During the last Ice Age, a wall of glacial debris called the Armoy Moraine was dumped across its old channel north to Ballycastle, forcing the river...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/armoy-wp/gcg9-armoy-the-lagge-and-the-giant.mp3 0:06 3 full Armoy: The Race of Legends https://qualla.com/armoy/ Photo credit Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0. Every summer at the end of July, the village fills up with the smell of fuel and the howl of high-revving engines. The Armoy Road Race, billed as 'The Race of Legends', has run on a three-mile circuit of closed public roads through the village since 2009. Up to twenty-seven rider...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/armoy-wp/gcg9-armoy-the-race-of-legends.mp3 0:06 4 full Armoy: A Loss in 1978 https://qualla.com/armoy/ Photo credit Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0. Not every story from the village is celebratory. On 15 April 1978, an RUC officer named John Moore was killed by a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car. He was one of more than three thousand people who died in the Troubles, the long and grinding conflict that scar...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/9/armoy-wp/gcg9-armoy-a-loss-in-1978.mp3 0:06 5 full Armoy: The Eiffel Tower in Miniature https://qualla.com/armoy/ Photo credit Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0. If you arrive looking for tourist landmarks, the round tower is the obvious one, but the Presbyterian church near the river has its own quiet claim to fame. Its spire is topped by a Viking ship weathervane and has been described, by people willing to stretch a metaphor, as 'a min...

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