Garpel Water, a burn in Muirkirk parish, E Ayrshire. It rises, at an altitude of 1755 feet, close to the boundary with Lanarkshire, and runs 4¼ miles north-westward till it falls into the river Ayr at a point 1 mile WSW of Muirkirk town.—Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)