Tempan notes that the diarist Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin recorded a different Irish name as , and the names of three nearby places are derived from this: Glencoshnabinnia (P. W. Joyce, Irish Names of Places iii, 366), Slievecoshnabinnia and Carrignabinnia. Tempan does not comment on whether the name Galty or Galtees comes from an earlier anglicised corruption of the name , as referenced in some guidebooks, and other publications. The range has also been known as (often anglicised as Slievegrot); and also as , which was the name of the surrounding territory.