Named after Mount Aboo Farm, named in turn after Mount Abu (or Aboo), a hill station in Rajasthan, dotted with numerous Jain and Hindu temples. As well as Aboo Court and Mount Aboo Park, the name was also used in Aboo Street, off Springfield Road (later renamed Kane Street, and then cleared).
It is likely that the name of this street can be traced back to the Dr Spence who served in the Indian Army and would have been aware of the mutiny at Mount Aboo and the defence of it by the 83rd Regiment of the Royal Irish. A report in the Newsletter in 1885 would seem to substantiate this: "DUNMURRY PRESBYTERIAN SABBATH SOHOOL. On Wednesday evening, 29th ult., the teachers and scholars of Dunmurry Presbyterian Sabbath school, in connection with the General Assembly, together with the Rev. R. J. Arnold, M.A., and family and some other friends (between two and three hundred in all). were most hospitably entertained by Robert Spence, Esq., M.D., Surgeon-Major (retired) Indian Army, and his wife. Aboo House, Finaghy". Belfast News-Letter - Saturday 01 August 1885. The 1887 BSD mentions Aboo and lists Spence, Dr. R. Surg. Major. There was an advertisement for the sale of Mount Aboo Farm in the Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 20 July 1905.