Glengarnock (Gaelic: Gleann Gairneig) is a small village in North Ayrshire that lies near the west coast of Scotland.

It flows from the base of the Hill of Stake in a southerly direction, traversing Kilbirnie and Glengarnock, and making its way to Irvine Harbour where it enters the sea.

The community consisted of a number of migrant workers from Ireland and Lithuania who were brought in to man the works and housed in the "raws", i.e., rows of terraced cottages.

One of the first libraries in North Ayrshire was formed by Mr William Rabey who opened a Reading room at the Steel Works.

During the course of its life, the Iron Works there were owned by Merry and Cunninghame, Colvilles, and British Steel, finally closing in the early nineteen-eighties.

Poet Lorna J Waite wrote about the deep impact on people living there, in her work The Steel Garden Poems (2011).

Glengarnock railway station on the Ayrshire Coast Line serves trains between Glasgow and Ayr, Ardrossan, or Largs.

Glengarnock also had a Jehovah's Witness meeting room as well as the "Hebron Hall" Plymouth Brethren assembly.