Clearing homes in Ashbourne
Thirty years ago Ashbourne was a village on the old Derry road with a Main Street, a church and a few hundred houses. Since then it has become one of the biggest towns in Meath, almost all of it built between the mid 1990s and the crash, and the Main Street has stretched into a long run of shops, pubs and the Ashbourne Town Centre, with Frederick Street and Killegland behind it.
The estates ring the town on every side: Milltown, Alderbrook, Churchfields, Bourne View, Deerpark and Archerstown. They are three and four-bed semis and detached houses with a driveway, a side gate and a garage, and the first generation of owners is now moving on, downsizing or passing the houses to the next generation.
Outside the estates the land is flat Meath farmland. One-off bungalows and farmhouses line the roads to Ratoath, Kilbrew and Garristown, with Fairyhouse Racecourse and Emerald Park a few minutes away.
What we clear in Ashbourne
- Full house clearances in Milltown, Alderbrook, Churchfields, Bourne View and Deerpark before a sale, a move or a new tenancy.
- Garages and attics in houses built around the millennium, which have had twenty-five years to fill with buggies, bikes, Christmas boxes and the contents of the previous kitchen. Our attic clearance service covers the loft; we do the garage on the same visit.
- Rental turnarounds for landlords in the estates let to commuters, where a tenant has left furniture, mattresses and bags behind. Furniture and white goods go with us for reuse or recycling.
- Furniture removal of a few large pieces when a house is being redone, which we fit in with north Dublin work. See our furniture removal page.
- Bereavement clearances in the older houses along Main Street and the earliest estates, done at the family’s pace with personal items set aside.
Landlords turning a house around will find this end-of-tenancy clearance guide for landlords a useful checklist before booking.
The run up from Dublin
Our crew works out of Dublin and travels to Ashbourne; we are not a local firm with a yard on Main Street. From Dublin the route is the M50 round to the Finglas junction and then the M2 and N2 north, which is a straightforward drive with the van loaded or empty. Travel is included in the fixed price.
Because the town is so close to the city, the usual rule for Leinster towns is relaxed here. Full-house and larger clearances are still what we do most, but Ashbourne is near enough that a garage or a load of furniture can be grouped with a Finglas or Swords job in the same run. Our post on how far we travel from Dublin explains where the line falls.
Parking and access in the estates
Estate roads in Ashbourne are modern and wide, so the van sits on the driveway or the kerb outside and we carry straight out through the hall or the side gate. Some of the newer phases have courtyards and shared parking rather than driveways, in which case we park at the nearest bay and the carry is a little longer.
Main Street is the exception. It is busy from morning to evening, parking is limited and the flats over the shops have narrow stairs, so for anything there we start early and use rear access where it exists. The N2 can back up around Ashbourne in the evening rush, which is another reason we favour a morning start.
Why people in Ashbourne call us
The typical call is a family moving house who have realised the garage, attic and shed hold more than a skip would take, or a landlord who needs a house empty before the next viewing. The second group is adult children clearing a parent’s home in one of the earlier estates while living in Dublin themselves. In both cases the alternative is a skip on the driveway and days of carrying.
A two-person crew with a box van clears it in one visit, and because we hold a waste collection permit you know the furniture, white goods and bagged rubbish are going to the right place: reuse and donation where there is a life left in something, recycling for metal, timber and cardboard, and a licensed transfer station for the rest.
Ashbourne is on the same side of Meath as Dunboyne and on the road to Navan, while on the Dublin side we come in through Finglas and often pair it with Swords.
