Glenmore Water, a stream of Auchinleck parish, E Ayrshire, rising at an altitude of 1600 feet near the meeting-point with Lanark and Dumfries shires, and running first 5¾ miles west-south-westward across the bleak uplands of the Gleumuirshaw or the eastern interior, then 4³/8 miles west-north-westward along the Old Cumnock border, till, just above Lugar Iron-works, it unites with Gass Water to form the Lugar.—Ord. Sur.,, sh. 15, 14, 1864-63.

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