Clearing homes in Longford
Longford is a market town that grew around a crossing of the Camlin, and St Mel’s Cathedral, restored after the fire of 2009, still stands over the centre at the Dublin Street end of Main Street. The centre is terraces, town houses, flats over shops and the Longford Shopping Centre, with the old Connolly Barracks on one side and the railway on the Sligo line on the other.
The estates are modest compared with the commuter belt. Teffia Park and the roads around Templemichael are the older estates, and the 1990s and 2000s added semis and bungalows out the Dublin, Athlone and Ballymahon roads, plus a few apartment blocks near the centre. Three-bed semis and bungalows with a garden and a shed are the typical job in the town.
Most of what we do in Longford, though, is outside it. The county is small farms and lake shore, from Granard and Edgeworthstown in the east to Lanesborough on the Shannon and Ballymahon to the south, and the farmhouses, bungalows on an acre and dormer houses along those roads come with haysheds, workshops and a lifetime of stored things.
What we clear in Longford
- Full house clearances in Teffia Park, Templemichael and the newer estates on the approach roads, before a sale or a new letting, with the attic and the shed in the same price.
- Farmhouses and outbuildings across the county, quoted as a whole site and planned as one or two days. Our shed clearance page describes how we sort tools, timber and scrap as it comes out.
- Bereavement and estate clearances for executors and families who have left the county, done at your pace with personal items kept aside. Our guide on clearing a house after a bereavement sets out the order to do things in.
- Hoarded houses, cleared quietly to a plan agreed in advance, with the same crew from start to finish.
- Bungalows on the lake shore at Lanesborough and towards Lough Ree, when a holiday home or a retirement home is being sold.
One of the longest runs we make
Our crew comes out from Dublin to Longford; we have no base in the county and do not pretend otherwise. From Dublin the route is the M50 to the M4, the M4 to Kinnegad and the N4 through Mullingar to Longford, which is around two hours each way. That journey only makes sense for a full house, a farmhouse with outbuildings or an estate clearance, where one crew, one visit and one fixed price are still the cheapest and simplest way to get it done.
The price you agree includes the travel, with no mileage charge appearing afterwards. We group Longford with Mullingar, Athlone and Tullamore work whenever the diary allows, so a little flexibility on the date is the single thing that most helps the quote. Our post on how far we travel from Dublin is frank about where a Dublin crew stops being good value.
Lanes, yards and the town centre
Estate houses in Longford are easy to work: driveway or kerb, side gate, out through the hall. Main Street and the streets around the cathedral are busy and have limited parking, and the flats over the shops have steep stairs, so for those we start early and use rear access where it exists.
Farm access is the real variable. Most lanes take a box van without trouble, but a soft yard after a wet month, a low gateway or a long carry from a back shed all add time, and a two-day job is better planned as two days than squeezed into one. Describe the approach, send photos of each outbuilding, and we will plan the day around them.
Why people in Longford call us
Almost nobody who rings us about a Longford house is in Longford. It is a son or daughter in Dublin, a brother in England, a solicitor acting for an estate, or an executor who has already made the drive three times and does not want to make it a fourth. They want one company to come once, do everything and send photos of the empty rooms afterwards.
A two-person crew with a box van does that, and because we hold a waste collection permit you know where the load goes. Furniture and goods with a life left in them go for reuse or donation, metal, timber and cardboard are recycled, and what is left goes to a licensed transfer station. Our post on what happens to items after a house clearance describes the sorting in detail.
Longford is the far end of a midlands run that takes in Mullingar, Athlone and Tullamore, and we seldom go there without one of those on the same list.
