Clearing homes in Inchicore
Inchicore has been a railway town inside the city since the works opened in the 1840s, and the Great Southern and Western Railway built much of the early housing for its own workers: neat terraces and artisan cottages around Emmet Road, Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore Terrace and the streets behind the Oblate church with its grotto. Dublin Corporation added 1930s houses around Goldenbridge and towards Bulfin Road, and in the last twenty years apartment blocks have gone up along the Luas red line at Blackhorse and Goldenbridge and on the old industrial sites.
That gives Inchicore a lot of small houses with a great deal inside them. A cottage built for a railway family in the 1860s has had several generations of belongings pass through it, and the current owner is often clearing it after a parent or an aunt who lived there all her life.
We are two people with a box van, and in Inchicore that is the right size: big enough to take a whole house, small enough to stop on a narrow street. You send photos, we quote, you keep what you want, and we take the rest.
What we clear in Inchicore
- Cottages and terraces being sold or renovated: furniture, beds, carpets, the contents of the press under the stairs, and the return at the back of a terrace that nobody has entered in years.
- Apartments near the Luas stops and on Tyrconnell Road, mostly between tenants. Our apartment clearance page covers lifts, fobs and management companies.
- Bereavement clearances, worked at the family’s pace. Our bereavement clearance service sets out how personal items are handled.
- Furniture removal when a single heavy piece has to go: a wardrobe that will not fit the stairs, a cast-iron bed, an old cooker. The furniture removal page explains how these are priced.
- Back yards and sheds, where the small yard behind a cottage has filled with bikes, timber and the old kitchen units.
- Odds and ends after a move: bags, boxes, a broken television, the mattress the new owner does not want.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Parking is the defining feature of an Inchicore job. The streets off Emmet Road and Tyrconnell Road are narrow, many are one-way, cars line both kerbs and some have clearway hours. We plan the approach, stop outside with the hazards on and load in short runs so the van is never on the street for longer than it needs to be. If there is a lane at the back, that is usually quicker.
Doors and stairs are small. A cottage door opens straight onto the footpath and a terrace has a hall barely wider than a wardrobe, so larger items are taken apart indoors. The return at the back and the attic above it are reached by a steep narrow stairs and everything comes down by hand.
Match days at Richmond Park fill every street around the ground, and Emmet Road is slow at rush hour, so we check the fixtures and come in the morning where we can.
Why people in Inchicore call us
There is nowhere to put a skip on most Inchicore streets, and where there is, it needs a permit and takes a parking space the neighbours want. A van that comes, loads and leaves is the practical answer, and because we do the carrying, nobody has to bring a wardrobe down a narrow stairs themselves.
We are an authorised waste carrier with a permit from the National Waste Collection Permit Office, which matters if you want to know where your things end up. There is a short explanation of what a waste collection permit means if you want the detail. Reusable furniture is set aside for donation or resale, recyclables are separated, and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station.
A good share of Inchicore clearances come from people who have inherited a cottage and live elsewhere. We can work from photos and a key left with a neighbour, and we send pictures when the rooms are empty so you can see it done.
Inchicore sits between Kilmainham and Ballyfermot, with Drimnagh across the Grand Canal and Rialto along the Luas, and as a Dublin crew we treat the whole of Dublin 8 and 10 as one patch.
