Clearing homes in Enniskerry
The village itself is compact: the triangular square with the clock tower, the terraces of cottages on the hill up to St Patrick’s church, the shops and cafés, and a couple of small 20th-century estates on the Kilgarron side. Beyond that it opens out quickly. The Glencree Road, the Cookstown Road and the lanes towards Kilmacanogue and Curtlestown are lined with old farmhouses, converted outbuildings and large modern homes on an acre or two.
Those country houses are where the big jobs are. They have garages, sheds, barns and sometimes a stable block, and the families in them have often been there for a lifetime. A clearance can run to several van loads once the outbuildings are counted.
Kilmacanogue, Glencree and the Scalp are all within a few minutes, and a lot of the houses out that way share the same long gated drives and gravel yards. We treat them as part of the same patch.
The village cottages are the opposite problem: small rooms, steep stairs and a front door straight onto the footpath, with nowhere to put anything down.
What we clear in Enniskerry
- Country houses and farmhouses in full, including the sheds, garage and outbuildings. We go over the whole site before quoting so nothing is a surprise on the day.
- Village cottages and terraces around the square and up Church Hill, where the job is small in volume but slow in handling.
- Bereavement clearances for families who have been in the parish for generations. We work at your pace and set personal items aside; our page on bereavement clearance explains the approach.
- Sheds, garages and stables as standalone jobs: old tools, timber, feed bins, bikes, garden machinery and the furniture that was moved out there years ago. See our shed clearance page for what we take.
- Attics and lofts in older houses, which are often reached by a hatch and a borrowed ladder. We bring our own.
Bulk garden waste and building rubble from an outbuilding are a different type of load, better suited to a skip or a garden waste clearance service, and we will tell you if that is the better route.
Access, parking and the practical bits
The practical question in Enniskerry is whether a box van can get to the door, and the honest answer is usually yes, slowly. We run a standard box van rather than a lorry, which fits most of the lanes off the Glencree and Cookstown roads, and we check the approach on a map and with you before the day. If a gateway or a stone bridge is too tight, we park at the nearest point and carry or barrow the rest.
In the village, parking around the square is limited and the cottages open straight onto the street. We stop as close as we can with hazards on, work quickly, and try to avoid the busy weekend afternoons when Powerscourt visitors fill the village.
Hills matter too. Several roads out of the village are steep, and a loaded van on a wet day takes a bit more care, so we allow time rather than rushing.
Why people in Enniskerry call us
Skip hire is awkward out here: the lorry may not get up the lane, you still have to fill it yourself, and if it sits on the road it needs a permit. A two-person crew and a van that comes to the door is usually the simpler answer, and the lifting is done for you. We go through the trade-offs in house clearance versus skip hire.
Everything we take is sorted: furniture and goods with use left in them go for reuse or donation, metals and recyclables are separated, and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station under our collection permit. We sweep the rooms and the shed floor before we leave. Volume and access set the price here, and for a country house we would rather see it before quoting; a short video walking from the gate to the back shed does the job.
Enniskerry is a short climb from Bray and only a little further from Sandyford, so it is not a special trip. We also cover Kilmacanogue, Glencree and Kilternan on the same runs, as well as Killiney on the coast.
