Clearing homes in Gorey
Gorey grew up as a market town on the old coach road from Dublin to Wexford, and its Main Street is long and broad, running from the Market House past the shops and churches with the side streets feeding into it. The older housing is the terraces and town houses on Main Street itself and on Esmonde Street, The Avenue and the lanes off them, many with flats above the shops.
Everything else is recent. From the mid-1990s, and especially after the M11 bypass opened and the train service improved, Gorey became a commuter town for south Dublin, and the fields around it filled with estates: Ramsfort Park, Creagh, Ballytegan, Clonattin and the others off the Arklow, Courtown and Hollyfort roads, mostly three and four-bed semis and detached houses with a garage and a decent garden.
East of the town the land runs down to the sea at Courtown Harbour, Riverchapel, Ardamine and Ballymoney, where holiday homes, retirement bungalows and a few old family cottages sit on narrow roads that are empty in February and jammed in July. Inland are the villages of Camolin, Ballycanew, Coolgreany, Inch and Kilanerin, with farmhouses and one-off bungalows between them.
What we clear in Gorey
- Family homes in the commuter estates, at Ramsfort, Creagh, Ballytegan, Clonattin and the rest, cleared for a sale or a move with the garage and attic in the same quote.
- Holiday homes at Courtown, Riverchapel and Ballymoney, emptied when they are sold or handed on. Where it is a handful of large pieces rather than a full house, our furniture removal page explains how we price that.
- Bereavement clearances in the older houses on and around Main Street and in the first estates, often for families in Dublin. How we set aside photographs, papers and keepsakes is explained on our bereavement clearance page.
- Garages and attics in houses built for commuters who have had twenty years to fill them. The garage clearance guide is worth a look before you send photos.
- Flats over shops on Main Street between tenants, carried down the street-door stairs.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Main Street’s width is a gift: there is on-street parking along most of it, so a town-centre job is usually a van at the kerb and a short carry, though Saturdays and summer weekends bring Courtown traffic through the town. The estates are built for cars and the van goes on the driveway, with a side gate or the garage for the carry-through.
The holiday estates on the coast are a different matter, with narrow roads, tight corners and little room to turn a box van, so we check the approach on the map first and arrive early. Rural jobs are about the lane, the gate and the yard; describe them in your message and we will plan around them.
From Dublin the drive is the M50 to the M11 and straight down through Wicklow to the Gorey exits, about an hour and a quarter each way. Gorey is far enough that we make it worthwhile with a full house or by pairing it with Arklow or Wexford, and close enough that it is a realistic one.
Why people in Gorey call us
We are a Dublin crew that travels down the M11 to north Wexford rather than working out of Gorey, which we say plainly so nobody expects a local van around the corner. The arrangement that follows is simple: we prioritise full-house and larger clearances this far from Dublin, the travel is inside the fixed quote with nothing added on the day, and jobs in the same county are grouped where the dates allow. Our article on how far we travel from Dublin explains when that is a good deal for you and when it is not.
Gorey enquiries are usually one of three things: a parent’s house to empty for sale by children living in Dublin, a holiday home at the coast that the family has stopped using, or a commuter semi being sold with a garage and attic that twenty years of family life have filled. Every time, the other option is a skip on the drive and several weekends of lifting.
We hold Waste Collection Permit NWCPO-25-13287-01, which you can check, and what we take away is sorted rather than dumped: furniture in good condition goes for reuse or donation, metal, timber and cardboard are separated for recycling, and the rest goes to a licensed transfer station. There is a plain explanation of what a waste collection permit means and why you should ask any clearance company for theirs. Up the coast we also cover Arklow and Wicklow Town, and Wexford is the far end of the same road.
