Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Irish) idle chatter, gossip; thus as v. caffle, to gossip.

1896		Grantham Jrnl 23 May n/p/: Mr Avery had always been ‘quibbling and caffling’.
1991		J. Kennedy People who Drank Water from the River n.p.: I heard my father talk about the caffling that went on when many of the Brackile people had a garden in Bobby Ryan’s of Newtown [BS].