Newark, an old baronial fortalice in Maybole parish, Ayrshire, on the N slope of Brown Carrick Hill, 1 ¹/8 mile S by E of the mouth of the river Doon, and 3 miles S by W of Ayr. It belongs to the Marquis of Ailsa; and, not very long ago restored and almost renovated, is now inhabited.

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