According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, , meaning the glen of water, is from the glen on the south-east side of this peak. Tempan also notes that on the north-west side in the townland of , Benglenisky is known as (meaning Black Peak) or (meaning Black Hill). The green Connemara marble is quarried in Barr na nÓrán, which was first started by Thomas Barnwall Martin in the 1820s.