Irish academic Paul Tempan in his Irish Hill and Mountain Names Database (2010), listed Galtymore as the name for the peak, and Galty Mountains as the name for the range. He notes that this anglicised name of , meaning big hill of the Galtees), is recorded as early as the Civil Survey of Co. Tipperary (Down Survey, 1654-56), where it is mentioned and spelt exactly as today, as a boundary feature of the barony of Clanwilliam. The peak is named Galtymore Mountain on the Ordnance Survey Ireland Discovery Map.