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Paddy says, Fintan, what’s an ingle? and Fintan says it’s just a boy from olden times who sits in a corner, that’s all.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Then see him at the ingle side, Wi’ bairnies round him laughin’; Was ever dog sae pleased as he, Sae fond o’ fun and daffin?

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon

The handsome, motherly landlady looked after every guest; and Arnold, the jolliest landlord that ever lived, sat smoking in the ingle, chatting with some traveller, or listening to the yarn of a lake fisherman.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

Lettie picked up a book that lay in the ingle seat, and went to the window.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

A pair of bellows lay on an antique chest in the ingle.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir