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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

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

Another recalled the fact that on Good Friday morning Kisseck struck the griddle that hung in the ingle and tumbled it into the fire.

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

And when she had done that she hung over the fire a pot of brose, and when it was cooked she made Matt sit down in the ingle and split matches.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

And Billy-the-Gawk, who sat at the opposite side of the ingle, being kin to Jabez's sick wife, said, "Ay, and quiet like, and solemn extraordinary."

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir