 Monastic records give some support to the tradition of a Culdee religious house or "college" in Arbirlot, that was suppressed sometime after the founding of Arbroath Abbey in the late 12th century.The Culdee title of "Abbe of Arbirlot" continued to appear in records for some years until about 1207 but apparently as an honorific rather than an actual position of authority over a religious community.The First Statistical Account of 1792 relates the demolition of the ruins of a long revered religious house and early Ordnance Survey maps show the location of the "college" by the Rottonrow Burn.