Anglo-Irish. [? a. Ir. fainneall ‘a handful of straw for thatching’ (O’Reilly).] (See quot.)
1863. The Dublin University Magazine, Oct., 438. When once the performances were over, and the parties returning home, probably by the light of fangles. Ibid., note. Fangles (French, fanal) were long irregular cones of straw, tied at short intervals with twigs or slight straw bands. Being set on fire at the broader end they burned slowly, and were very useful in dark nights where the way led by field-paths.
