The hospital is spacious and handsome, and is designed for inhabitants of Tarbolton and Mauchline, in indigent circumstances, upwards of forty years of age, and who have never solicited alms". One unusual feature of the village is a range of Almshouses that were constructed using funds from a bequest and had conditions of character, situation and age attached as recorded in 1846 :- " A range of almshouses was erected and endowed, by a bequest of the late Alexander Cooper, Esq., of Smithston, at Failford, near the junction of the Ayr and Fail rivers, for eight persons, who have each a weekly allowance and an allotment of garden ground. In 1921, local Freemasons erected a memorial stone to commemorate this event. The betrothal of the poet Robert Burns and " Highland Mary" (Mary Campbell) is said to have taken place here in 1786 or at nearby Coilsfield. The Water of Fail at Failford Robert Burns and Highland Mary
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