According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, British cartographer Tim Robinson proposed the alternative name , meaning peak of the big corrie for the mountain, however, Tempan agreed that the existing OS map name of Bencorr was the correct version. Tempan records that the British army sappers set up a beacon on Bencorr during the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland in the 1830s (i.e. the 6 map series), and that it is said that the subsidiary peak of (translation, the soldier's peak) was named after one of the sappers who fell to his death from the mountain.