What is a "boiling house?"

[gaffy]

The only references to 'Boiling House' I could find in the 1901 Ireland census are both in Armagh, Robert James Prestly ...

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Armagh/Camlough/Thomas_Street/1036248/

... and Daniel O'Hare...

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Armagh/Mullaglass/Maytown/1036615/

Is it one of these two?

[ThrelfallYorky]

My parents once lived in a house which had a condition in the deeds concerning an outhouse that it had not to be used for boiling beets? But that was in the north of England, not Ireland.

[aghadowey]

Perhaps a place to boil potatoes or make soup.
www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/subjects/history/history-the-full-story/ireland-in-the-19th-centu/soup-kitchens-and-workhou/
https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/quakers-the-famine/
https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2018/01/skibbereens-famine-soup-kitchen-to-be.html

[Ghostwheel]

Normal household farm.  On the same sheet, three other boiling houses, for three different households, all well inland, though near (but not next to) a canal.

I don't know if there is a clue in the other outbuildings.  Not all have a potato house, or a dairy.   All three do have piggeries, fowl houses, and cow houses.  None have coal houses, only one a turf house.

But, of course, those are common buildings.

[Wexflyer]

This is just a guess, but I think it is likely correct.

Farm hygiene and sanitary requirements increased markedly during the 1800s. I am pretty certain that by the end of the 19C it was a requirement that dairy equipment such as churns, buckets, milking equipment, etc should be sterilized. Sterilization required boiling water.

[Rosinish]

Normal household farm.  On the same sheet, three other boiling houses, for three different households, all well inland, though near (but not next to) a canal.

I don't know if there is a clue in the other outbuildings.

It would be an idea to post all the details (addresses) or at least a link to each as people here are willing to help & may have access to info. you don't but without knowing where?...

Annie

[Ghostwheel]

I assume most people have seen one, as they seem pretty common, but here's a couple of sheets, where at least one appears:

Bray Lower, near Athy, Kildare (just one) with 3 cowhouses and 1 dairy, no piggery
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000895933/

Nicholstown, near Athy (three) all have cowhouses but only 1 dairy
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000897787/

Johnstown, near Enfield Meath (two) all have cowhouses but no dairies.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000905575/

I don't believe I have seen one without a cowhouse yet, though there seem to be many without dairies.  I'd be curious if anyone has seen one without a cowhouse.

[Skoosh]

Pig swill had to be boiled by law I think?

Skoosh.