Very little is known about the origins of this three-part jig. It was first published in in 1873 in P.W. Joyce’s Ancient Irish Music, under the title "The Bag of Meal". It may have been played to ward off evil or misfortune.
Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Banish_Misfortune_(1)
Ref: https://thesession.org/tunes/9
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