Arboe (LDY part)

"ARBOE, (or Ardboe) a parish chiefly in the barony of Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone, partly also in the barony of Lough-insholin, in the county of Londonderry, province of Ulster, Ireland, 5 miles to the E. of Stewartstown. It is situated on the western shore of Lough Neagh. The soil is fertile and well cultivated, with a small tract of bog. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Armagh and Cashel, value £676, in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin. The church was erected in the reign of William III. This parish was the site of a monastery, founded at a very remote period by St. Colman, and destroyed about the middle of the 12th century. The ruins of the abbey, and the walls of an old church, still stand near the Lough. There is a curious old stone cross near the ruins. 

Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868