Clearing homes in Naas
Naas, Nás na Ríogh in Irish, has been the administrative centre of Kildare for centuries, and the town shows its age in the right places: the Georgian and Victorian frontages along North and South Main Street, Poplar Square, the town hall, and the canal harbour at the end of the Naas branch of the Grand Canal. Behind the shopfronts are flats, offices and old town houses, some still single family homes and many long since split into units.
The real volume of housing is outside that core. Kingsfurze and the roads off the Sallins Road date from the 1970s and 1980s; Monread grew through the 1990s and 2000s on the north side towards Sallins and the motorway; Craddockstown, Lakelands and the estates out the Kilcullen and Blessington roads filled in around the same time. These are three and four-bed semis and detached houses with a garage, an attic and a shed at the end of the garden, and the first owners are now at the age where the house is being sold or passed on.
Sallins, with its station and canal, has effectively joined up with the north of the town. Johnstown and Kill sit on the old N7 towards Dublin, Newbridge is a few minutes down the M7, and the Curragh lies between the two. All of that comes under the same run for us.
What we clear in Naas
- Whole houses in Monread, Kingsfurze, Craddockstown and Lakelands, cleared before a sale or a letting, with the garage, the attic and the shed done in the same visit. Our house clearance page explains how a job is planned.
- Bereavement clearances in the older estates and the town houses off Main Street, where the family wants papers, photographs and keepsakes set aside before anything is loaded. We go at your pace, not ours.
- Flats and apartments over the shops on Main Street and in the newer blocks near the canal and the Monread Road, turned around between tenants.
- Attics holding thirty years of boxes, Christmas decorations and children’s furniture. The attic clearance guide sets out how we get a loft emptied safely.
- Garages that have never held a car. Lawnmowers, paint tins and offcuts of timber are the usual finds; ask us first about anything unusual.
If you are an executor and unsure whether the house can be touched yet, this plain explanation of clearing a house before probate sets out the position.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Main Street is pay parking and busy from mid-morning, and the older buildings have narrow stairs and rear access through lanes that were laid out for carts. For town-centre flats we aim for an early start, use the lane where there is one and carry down by hand where there is not.
The estates are straightforward: driveway or kerb, a side gate to the garden, and roads wide enough for a box van. Some of the newer courts in Monread and Craddockstown are tight at the turning circle, so we may leave the van at the mouth of the court and walk the last stretch with each load.
Race days are the thing to watch. Naas Racecourse is on the Tipper Road at the edge of the town and Punchestown is a few kilometres out on the Blessington side, and both put traffic on the roads in and out, Punchestown festival week in April most of all. Tell us if your date falls on one and we will plan the run around it.
From Dublin it is the N7 and M7, leaving at junction 9 or 10 depending on which side of Naas the house is on. Because Kildare jobs are often grouped on the same day, a Naas clearance may be paired with Newbridge, Sallins or Clane, which keeps the travel share of your quote sensible.
Why people in Naas call us
Naas is a commuter town where many of the houses belong to people whose children live in Dublin, abroad or further down the country. Those sons and daughters, along with estate agents, executors and landlords, are the people who ring us. They want one phone call to cover the lifting, the sorting and the disposal, and a price agreed before the day.
A two-person crew and a box van does that, under a waste collection permit, so you know where everything goes. Furniture and household goods that still have a life in them are set aside for reuse or donation, metal and recyclables are separated, and the rest goes to a licensed transfer station. If the job is a single table or a few bags, a local man with a van or the county council’s recycling centre is the better and cheaper option, and we will say so rather than send a van from Dublin for it.
Naas is the hub of our Kildare work. Newbridge is the next town down the motorway, Kildare Town lies beyond that, and Blessington is a short drive out the R410 over the Wicklow border.
