Antrim glens residents fear being cut off by second landslide

Kevin McCaughan, who lives between the two landslide sites, told BBC News NI there are about 19 houses in the same position.

He said families were already moving vehicles away from their homes due to fears the new landslide could deepen and extend, leading to a full road closure.

“If it went, we’d be cut of from both sides,” he said, explaining there are no backroads which would allow alternative access to their homes.

“We left Mum’s car down at the other side of the landslide in case we got cut off.”

The 26-year-old software developer works part-time on his mother’s farm.

“We have livestock at the other side of the valley but we’re lucky – we can access them by quad,” he said, adding that his neighbours were not so fortunate.

Since the first landslide at the end of March, some farmers have had to travel through Ballycastle in order to reach their livestock.

Mr McCaughan said a regular “three-minute journey” to check on sheep and cows had turned into a 20-minute detour – meaning a 40-minute round trip.

“That could be a couple of times a day.”

He added that farmers whose children attend school in Armoy have been experiencing even more travel disruption because of the existing diversion on their school run.

Then on Saturday morning, one of his neighbours discovered the new landslide.