Clearing homes in Kildare Town
Kildare Town grew around St Brigid’s monastery, and the cathedral and round tower still stand over the Market Square at the top of the hill. The streets off the square, Claregate Street, Station Road, Bride Street and the Dublin Road, are lined with two-storey terraces, some Georgian, some Victorian, with shops and flats where the square meets the main street. The Grey Abbey ruins and the Carmelite White Abbey mark the old edges of the town.
The estates came later and in two waves. Melitta Road and Grey Abbey Road picked up housing from the 1970s on; the 1990s and 2000s added Southgreen, the estates off the Nurney and Tully roads and the apartments near the station, when the train to Heuston and the M7 made the town a commuter option. Beyond them are bungalows and farmhouses on the Rathangan, Monasterevin and Nurney roads.
To the east the town stops dead at the Curragh, the open plain with its racecourse, the army camp and the sheep. To the south are the Irish National Stud and the Japanese Gardens at Tully, and off the M7 junction is Kildare Village, the outlet centre that brings in coach-loads of shoppers at weekends.
What we clear in Kildare Town
- Terraced houses around the square and on Claregate Street, Bride Street and Station Road, often held by the one family for two or three generations. These have narrow halls, steep stairs and a yard at the back rather than a garden.
- Estate semis and bungalows on Melitta Road, Southgreen and the Nurney Road, cleared for sale or when a parent moves into care. Our house clearance service covers the whole house, attic to shed.
- Bereavement clearances, which are most of the calls we get from the town, done at the family’s pace with personal items set aside. A bereavement clearance checklist is a useful place to start.
- Flats near the station and above the shops on the square, between tenants. The apartment clearance page covers the stairs-and-no-lift reality.
- Sheds and outbuildings at the rural houses on the roads out of town, where a hayshed or workshop can hold more than the house. See shed clearance.
Access, parking and the practical bits
The square and the streets off it are the oldest part of the town and the tightest: on-street parking, narrow footpaths and terraces with no driveway. We stop as near the door as the street allows, hazards on, and carry through the hall; a back lane or yard gate, where one exists, is quicker, so tell us about it when you send photos.
In the estates it is driveway or kerb, side gate, and a short carry, with no real obstacles for a box van. Rural houses are about the lane and the yard. Most farm lanes and gateways around the town take a box van without any bother, but soft ground after rain can catch a loaded van, so we plan the stop on hard standing.
Race days at the Curragh and busy Saturdays at Kildare Village put traffic on the roads around the M7 junction. Neither stops a job, but we would rather know, so mention the date and we will time the run.
From Dublin it is the M50, N7 and M7, leaving at junction 13, which is a longer run than Naas or Newbridge. For that reason the work that suits Kildare Town is a full house or close to it, with the travel inside the single fixed price, and we often pair a job here with Newbridge or Monasterevin on the same day.
Why people in Kildare Town call us
Kildare Town is a place families stay in, and the typical call is from a son or daughter in Dublin, or further away, who has to empty a parent’s terrace or bungalow for sale and cannot do it with a car boot and weekends. Executors and estate agents ring for the same houses with a deadline attached. A two-person crew, a box van and a waste collection permit means the carrying, sorting and disposal are one phone call: items with life in them go to reuse or donation, recyclables are separated, and genuine waste goes to a licensed transfer station.
Our older post on house clearance across Dublin, Kildare, Carlow and Laois explains how we handle the towns beyond the M50.
A lone armchair or a few bags is not a job to bring a van from Dublin for; a local collection or the council’s recycling centre serves that better, and we will say so when you ask.
Kildare Town is the western anchor of our Kildare work, with Newbridge and Naas back along the M7 and Athy down the Athy road through the farmland to the south.
