Clearing homes in Malahide
The village core is the oldest part: terraced and semi-detached period houses on the Mall, Church Road, Old Street and New Street, many with basements, returns and tall narrow stairs. Towards the coast road and the castle are the larger detached homes, and further out at Seabury, Biscayne, Gainsborough, Ard na Mara, Yellow Walls and Robswall are the estates, built from the 1970s through to the 2000s, with driveways and garages.
Apartments are a growing part of the picture, in the newer blocks near the DART station, along the estuary and in the village itself, often over shops. Many are rented, so a good share of our Malahide work is landlords and letting agents between tenants. Portmarnock to the south and Swords inland are five minutes away, so a job that spans two addresses is no trouble.
The other thing that shapes a job here is time. Families stay in Malahide for generations, and a house that has been lived in since the 1970s holds a lot more than one that changed hands five years ago.
What we clear in Malahide
- Large family homes near the castle, the coast road and the Dublin Road, often five bedrooms plus a basement or garage, being sold after decades in one family.
- Period village houses on the Mall and Church Road, with return stairs, cellars and attic rooms that hold years of boxes. Everything is carried by hand.
- Apartments near the station and marina between tenancies. See our apartment clearance guide for how lifts, parking and management companies affect the day.
- Bereavement clearances, which make up a lot of what we do here. We go room by room at your pace, set aside photographs, documents and jewellery, and can liaise with a solicitor or estate agent if you are abroad.
- Furniture removal: antique and solid-wood pieces that deserve a second home rather than a transfer station. We tell you which items we can pass on for reuse.
If you are dealing with an estate, this bereavement clearance checklist sets out the order to do things in.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Parking in the village is the one real constraint. The Mall, Church Road and the streets around the Diamond are pay parking and busy, and on summer weekends the whole centre fills up. We aim for a weekday start, pull up as close to the door as the road allows, and keep the hazards on while we load.
Out in the estates it is simple: driveway, side gate, done. The coast road to Portmarnock and the roads around the castle are quieter, and the detached houses there have drives wide enough to take the van. Apartment blocks near the station usually have a visitor space or a set-down area; we ask the management company in advance if there are rules about loading hours or lift protection.
The period houses need a bit more care. Return stairs and narrow hallways mean we take wardrobes apart on the landing and protect the banisters before carrying. It takes longer than an estate house, and we allow for it in the quote.
Why people in Malahide call us
Most calls are about a parent’s house: it is being sold, the family is spread between Dublin, London and further afield, and someone has to get it emptied before the estate agent’s photographer arrives. Our guide to clearing a house after a bereavement walks through what to do first. For landlords and letting agents the brief is usually simpler: an apartment empty and swept by a given date, with a photo to prove it.
What we bring is a two-person crew, a box van and a waste collection permit, which means the loading, the sorting and the disposal are handled by one company and you know where it all goes. Items with life left in them are set aside for donation or resale, recyclables are separated, and genuine waste goes to a licensed transfer station. We leave the rooms swept.
We cover the whole coast and Fingal around Malahide, including Swords inland, Donabate across the estuary and Sutton and Howth to the south.
