Corrour Bothy its local dialect— suggest an alternative origin for the place name as a shelter for the currour or forester's assistant. In the author writes that the people of mar used Coirie Odhar as a summer shieling for their cattle in the early part of the nineteenth century, but in the later part "the area was kept clear for deer". The original bothy was built in 1877 to house a deer watcher during the summer, and it housed several including Charles Robertson, John Macintosh, and Frank Scott before the estate stopped using the bothy in the 1920s. In the author gives
Corrour Bothy is used as a name for the locality as well as specifically as a name for the bothy itself, the name being derived from Coire Odhar according to , who continues: In the author gives the local pronunciation as "Corower", but without explanation. However in the section "Hints on Gaelic pronunciation" appears to suggest the final-vowels of "Coire" (and corrie) are dropped to give "kor", and that the "dh" in "Odhar" are silent because they follow a vowel—giving what sounds like "kor-Oar", or like the "cor-ower" suggested in . In spite of the earlier work and his understanding of Gaelic—and