Clearing homes in Kilbarrack
Kilbarrack was fields and a few cottages until the 1960s, when Dublin Corporation and private builders between them filled the ground between Raheny and Baldoyle with housing. Greendale, Kilbarrack Grove and the roads off Kilbarrack Road are mostly two-storey Corporation terraces, Foxfield has the private semi-detached houses, and Bayside, built in the 1970s between the railway and the coast, is detached and semi-detached homes with driveways.
The DART stops at Kilbarrack and at Howth Junction, the shops are around Greendale, and St Anne’s Park is a short walk to the west. It is a close-knit part of the north side, and Roddy Doyle grew up here.
Settled is the word for it. The houses were bought or rented by young families fifty years ago, many were later bought out from the council, and they are now coming to the market as the first generation moves on. That gives us the typical Kilbarrack job: a full house, a full attic and a shed, being cleared for a sale.
What a Kilbarrack clearance includes
- The full house, every room, when a family home is being sold or handed back. How we run a job is on our house clearance page.
- Bereavement clearances at the pace the family sets, with personal items boxed up first. See our bereavement clearance page.
- Attics with fifty years of boxes, suitcases and the old cot. Our attic clearance guide explains how we bring it all down.
- Garages in Bayside and sheds everywhere else, with the bikes, tools, paint tins and garden furniture that build up over decades.
- Furniture only when a family is downsizing and the dining suite, spare beds and the good-room cabinet have no home to go to.
Where an item can be reused we set it aside for donation or resale, we separate recyclable material, and the real waste goes to a licensed waste transfer station. Garden waste and rubble are a separate kind of job, so mention them and we will advise.
Access, parking and the DART
Kilbarrack splits into two for access. In the Corporation terraces around Greendale and Kilbarrack Road there are few driveways, so the van parks at the kerb and we carry across the front garden, keeping the footpath clear for buggies and neighbours. In Foxfield and Bayside most houses have a driveway and the van reverses up to the door.
Kilbarrack Road is the main route through and gets busy around the DART station and the shops, especially at school times, so we aim to be parked up before that or after it. Bayside is on the far side of the railway, and the roads there are wide and quiet.
If the house has been empty for a while, tell us whether the electricity is still on, and if the shed is at the end of a long garden, a photo of the side passage helps us plan the carrying.
Why Kilbarrack families call us
A skip outside a Kilbarrack terrace means a council skip permit, a week of it sitting on the road, and every item carried out and climbed in with by you. A crew of two and a box van turn up, load it all, sort what can be reused or recycled, and drive away with everything in one go, leaving the rooms swept. Our comparison of house clearance and skip hire sets out the real trade-offs.
If the house belonged to someone who has died, there is often a question of what can go before probate is granted. There is a plain-terms guide to clearing a house before probate; the short version is to ask the solicitor before you fix a date.
We are fully insured, we hold a current Waste Collection Permit, and we work six days a week. Kilbarrack borders Raheny on one side and Donaghmede and Baldoyle on the other, with Sutton across the railway and Coolock inland, and one trip covers any of them.
