Clearing homes in Dalkey
Castle Street is the spine of Dalkey, with Dalkey Castle and Heritage Centre beside St Begnet’s church and shops, pubs and the church in between. The streets running off it, such as Convent Road, Ulverton Road and the lanes down towards Bulloch Harbour, are lined with nineteenth-century cottages and short terraces: two or three bedrooms, a small yard, a narrow hall and a front door that opens straight onto the footpath.
Climb towards Killiney Hill and the scale changes. Sorrento Road, Vico Road and Coliemore Road have large Victorian and later detached houses looking out over Dalkey Island and the bay, many with gate lodges, garages, basements and gardens that drop away in terraces. Between the two extremes are twentieth-century houses on Dalkey Avenue and around the DART station.
House clearance in Dalkey is often a bereavement or a downsizing job, because people here stay put for a long time. We also clear holiday homes and rentals that have been let for years and need everything gone before a sale.
Much of the village core is protected, so hall doors, stairs and windows are mostly original and narrow. We measure the big pieces before we move them and dismantle where a wardrobe or a sideboard will not make the turn.
What we clear in Dalkey
- Full house clearances on the coast roads: furniture from every floor, the contents of the garage and basement, garden furniture and whatever has gathered in the outbuildings.
- Cottages in the village, where the problem is not volume but access, and where a two-person crew carrying by hand is the only method that works.
- Bereavement clearances handled quietly, with keepsakes set aside. Our guide to clearing a house after a death explains what to expect, and a printable bereavement clearance checklist is worth having to hand.
- Attics and lofts in older houses, often reached through a hatch at the top of a steep return stairs. See our attic clearance page.
- Garages and basements in the big houses, which hold decades of tools, paint, bikes and boxes. We ask you to flag chemicals or fuel before we arrive.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Dalkey village has some of the trickiest parking in south Dublin. Castle Street is narrow and busy, the side streets are tight, and the public car parks fill up by mid-morning, especially in summer and during the book festival. For a village cottage we arrive early, get the van as close as we legally can and carry from there.
On Vico Road and Sorrento Road the challenge is the driveway. Many are long, steep and gated, and some houses are below road level, so furniture comes up a flight of steps to reach the van. We bring extra straps and a sack trolley and we take our time, because the alternative is damage to the house or to us.
Coliemore Road is narrow in places with houses on one side and the sea on the other. If you know the van will struggle on your stretch, tell us when you book and we will plan the loading point.
Summer weekends bring day-trippers to Coliemore Harbour and the hill, so where a Dalkey job can wait for a weekday, it is quicker for everyone.
Why people in Dalkey call us
The families and executors who ring us from Dalkey usually have a house that has been full for a very long time and a sale or a move waiting on it. They want it done carefully, by people who turn up when they said and treat the place with respect, and they do not want to be surprised by extra charges when the garage turns out to be as full as the house. That is the service we offer.
We are a fully insured, permit-holding waste carrier (NWCPO-25-13287-01), based in Dublin. Good furniture and household items are set aside for reuse or donation, recyclables are separated and only true waste goes to a licensed transfer station. Our what happens to items after a house clearance article explains the process.
Dalkey runs straight into Killiney along Vico Road and into Dún Laoghaire through Glasthule and Sandycove, and we cover all of it as one patch.
