Clearing homes in Cabra East and Cabra West
Cabra was built, not grown. Dublin Corporation laid out Cabra East in the 1930s along the Cabra Road and Old Cabra Road, and followed it with the much larger Cabra West scheme in the 1940s, on roads with names drawn from around Ireland: Fassaugh Avenue, Carnlough Road, Bannow Road, Killala Road, Dingle Road and their neighbours. The Royal Canal and the railway run along the southern edge at Broombridge, the Phoenix Park is a short walk down the Navan Road or through the Cabra Gate on Blackhorse Avenue, and Phibsborough begins where the Cabra Road meets the North Circular.
The houses are compact: two storeys, two or three bedrooms, a parlour and a kitchen, a small front garden and a longer one behind, with a lane running along the back of many terraces. They were built for families who walked or cycled, and the streets were never meant for every house to have a car.
The Luas changed the area’s connections in 2017, with the green line stopping at Cabra and ending at Broombridge beside the railway, and younger buyers have followed. Even so, a great many Cabra houses are still with the families who moved in when the scheme was new, and those are the homes we clear most.
What we clear in Cabra
- Long-held family terraces being sold or let after a death or a move into care, cleared room by room. See how we go about a bereavement clearance.
- Houses bought by first-time buyers who want the previous owner’s furniture, carpets and kitchen gone before the builders start.
- Sheds, lean-tos and back yards that have quietly filled over decades with tools, bikes and timber. Our shed clearance page covers them.
- Single heavy items, from a sofa that will not go back out the way it came in to a washing machine or a chest freezer.
- Flats and bedsits in the older houses along the Cabra Road and Old Cabra Road between tenants.
What is still usable is set aside for reuse or donation where possible, recyclables are separated, and the rest goes to a licensed waste transfer station.
Narrow streets, back lanes and the Cabra Road
Parking is on the street almost everywhere in Cabra, and on the narrower roads cars line both sides. The box van is the right size for it. We pull up outside with the hazards on, load steadily and keep moving for anyone who needs past, which is exactly what the bin lorry does every week.
The back lanes are Cabra’s quiet advantage. Where a terrace has one and it is passable, we bring the van round and load over the back wall or through the garden gate, which keeps the front street clear and shortens the carry. Not every lane is open, so tell us what yours is like.
The Cabra Road and Old Cabra Road carry buses and have bus lane hours, so for a house fronting either we work around the peaks. Everywhere else is quiet. Inside, the rooms are small and the stairs are tight, and we take furniture apart on the landing when we have to.
Why Cabra households call us
A skip in Cabra would sit on the street, need a permit and still leave you carrying everything out to it, and a 1940s terrace that has been lived in for seventy years rarely fits in one skip anyway. A two-person crew and a van does the carrying, sorts as it loads and leaves the street as it found it. Our house clearance versus skip hire article goes through the sums.
Families clearing a parent’s house often worry less about the furniture than about the paperwork, photographs and small things mixed in with it. Our guide to clearing a house after a bereavement is written for that situation and is worth reading before anyone starts.
We are fully insured, we hold a current Waste Collection Permit, and we work six days a week across Dublin 7. Cabra runs into Phibsborough at the North Circular, Stoneybatter by way of Prussia Street and Finglas up the Ratoath Road, and we cover all of them.
