Clearing homes in Celbridge
Celbridge is the village the Conollys built at the gate of Castletown House in the 1700s, and the Main Street still runs from the avenue down past the shops to the Liffey bridge and the old Shackleton mill. The Georgian and Victorian houses along it are now shops, offices and flats; a handful remain family homes.
From the 1980s on the town multiplied. Oldtown, Abbeyfarm, St Wolstan’s Abbey, Ardclough Road, Primrose Gate, Castle Village and Elm Hall filled the fields on both sides of the river with three and four-bed semis, each with a driveway and a side passage to the back garden. Thornhill and the estates out the Hazelhatch Road followed, and since the railway station at Hazelhatch was upgraded, new developments have grown up around it on the Dublin side of the town.
The people who bought those houses new are now retiring, downsizing or passing them on, and that is the bulk of the work here: a family home lived in for thirty-odd years, with everything that implies in the attic and garage.
What we clear in Celbridge
- Full houses in Oldtown, Abbeyfarm, St Wolstan’s and Primrose Gate before a sale or a new tenancy, with the garage, attic and shed quoted as part of the same job.
- Garages in particular. Celbridge semis almost always have one, and very few have a car in it. Our garage clearance page explains how we sort tools, timber and metal from genuine rubbish.
- Sheds and garden rooms at the back of the long gardens in the older estates. See the shed clearance service for what we take.
- Bereavement clearances in the first-generation estates and the few remaining period homes near Main Street, handled quietly and at the family’s pace.
- Attics of the boarded kind with a pull-down ladder, which in a 1980s semi means everything the children left behind. Read how to prepare for a house clearance if you want to sort the keepers first.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Main Street and the bridge are the known weak point in Celbridge: one river crossing in the town, several schools’ worth of traffic and a long queue at the morning and evening peaks. For anything on or near Main Street we aim to be unloaded and gone before the afternoon run, and we use the back lanes and car parks off the street rather than stopping on it.
In the estates it is driveway or kerbside parking and a walk through the side passage. Some of the older estates have long back gardens and the shed is a fair distance from the van, which adds carrying time rather than cost.
Around Hazelhatch the newer developments have narrower internal roads, allocated parking and sometimes a management company, so we check on access and bin-store rules beforehand. Rural houses on the Ardclough and Newcastle roads often have a gravel drive and outbuildings; a photo of the gateway is enough for us to plan.
We are Dublin-based and reach Celbridge off the M4 at junction 6 or through Lucan on the R403, so it is not a long run, and we tend to group it with Leixlip or Maynooth jobs on the same day.
Why people in Celbridge call us
Celbridge is full of people in the same position: the parents have died or moved to a smaller place, the house in Oldtown or Abbeyfarm has to be emptied and brought to market, and the family lives in Dublin, Cork or London. The alternative is a skip parked outside for a fortnight and a string of car-boot runs to the recycling centre, which nobody with a job and children has time for.
A two-person crew with a box van clears the house in one visit, and because the work is done under a waste collection permit, you know where it ends up: items with life left in them go to reuse or donation, recyclables are separated, and the remainder goes to a licensed transfer station. Our post on what happens to items after a house clearance goes through the sorting in detail.
We do not send a van from Dublin for a single chair; for that a local man-with-a-van suits better, and we say so.
Celbridge is one of a trio of towns for us along with Leixlip and Maynooth, with Lucan the first Dublin suburb across the county line and the rest of the county on our Kildare page.
