Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fardel n.

[OE féor?a dæ’l, fourth part]

(Irish) a farthing.

[Ire]E. Brady All in! All in! 167: Says my old one / To your old one, / Will you come to the Waxies’ Dargle. / Says your old one / To my old one, / Sure I haven’t got a fardel. [...] Up to about 1890 the waxies of Dublin held an annual gathering at Irishtown Green.
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