Clearing homes in Dundalk
Dundalk sits at the head of Dundalk Bay with the Cooley Mountains across the water and the border a few miles up the road. Clanbrassil Street and Park Street form the main spine, with Market Square and the courthouse at the centre, and the streets around them, Francis Street, Jocelyn Street, Seatown and the Demesne, hold the terraces, town houses and shop-top flats of a town that made shoes, beer, cigarettes and railway engines for a century.
The estates came with the factories and after them. Muirhevnamor on the south-west side is one of the largest estates in the county, built from the 1970s onward, and Bay Estate, Cox’s Demesne, Fatima and the roads around the Avenue Road date from the same era. The 1990s and 2000s added smaller estates on every approach and the apartment blocks in the centre, and the Dublin Road has grown around Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Blackrock, the seaside village just south of the town, is its own place: a promenade, Victorian and Edwardian villas facing the bay, and 1970s to 2000s bungalows and semis behind them. Haggardstown, Knockbridge and the countryside towards Louth village are farmhouses and one-off houses.
What we clear in Dundalk
- Full house clearances in Muirhevnamor, Bay Estate, Cox’s Demesne and the newer estates on the Castletown, Avenue and Dublin roads, with attic and shed included in the quote.
- Bereavement clearances in the town terraces and the first estates, where a house has been in one family since it was built. Our bereavement clearance page sets out how we work with families who are not local.
- Hoarded houses, which in a town this size tend to come to us through a relative or a solicitor. We clear them with a plan agreed beforehand; see our hoarder clearance service.
- Houses let to students around DkIT at the end of the year, furniture and all.
- Blackrock villas and bungalows being sold or passed on, including the garage and the garden shed.
The long road up the M1
We are a Dublin company. From Dublin the crew goes round the M50 to the M1 and north to the Dundalk exits, which is around 80 km and the best part of an hour and a half each way. That is why Dundalk is a full-house and larger-jobs area for us: a whole house fills the van and justifies the run, while a single item does not.
Travel is included in the fixed quote you receive before the day, with no mileage added afterwards. Where the diary allows we group Dundalk with Drogheda or another Louth job so that the van is working in the county for the day, and a week or two of notice makes that easier. Our guide on how far we travel from Dublin is honest about where the maths stops working.
Access and parking around the town
In Muirhevnamor, Bay Estate and the newer estates the van parks on the driveway or at the kerb and the house comes out through the front door and the side passage. Terraced rows in the older estates and in Seatown and the Demesne mean the van is on the street, so we work quickly and keep the footpath clear.
The centre around Clanbrassil Street and Market Square is metered and busy, and the flats above the shops have narrow stairs and no lift. For those we start early, use a back lane where there is one and carry down by hand. The Marshes Shopping Centre and the roads around the station fill up by mid-morning on weekdays.
Why people in Dundalk call us
Nearly every Dundalk job starts with a phone call from somewhere else: a daughter in Dublin, a son in Belfast or London, a solicitor handling an estate. They want one company to come once, do everything and send a photo of the empty house afterwards. That is what a two-person crew with a box van gives you, with the price agreed before we leave Dublin.
Our waste collection permit means the load is dealt with properly after we drive away. Furniture and household goods that still have a use go for reuse or donation, metal, timber and cardboard are separated for recycling, and the remainder goes to a licensed transfer station. For a sense of what we take and what we do not, see what a house clearance service removes.
Dundalk is the far end of our Louth run, which starts at Balbriggan and passes Drogheda, and we sometimes come at it from Navan if the week has taken us through Meath.
