Clearing homes in Shankill
Shankill is an old village that spent most of the twentieth century as a stop on the road to Bray and then grew quickly once the N11 bypassed it. The main street still has its cottages, pubs and terraces, and off it the Dublin Road and Corbawn Lane run down towards the sea past larger detached houses on big gardens, some Victorian, many from the middle of the last century.
The estates came later. Rathsallagh, Corbawn, Shanganagh Cliffs and the roads around the DART station were built from the 1970s onwards, mostly three- and four-bed semi-ds with a drive and a garage, and they are now at the age where the first owners are downsizing or have passed on. Newer apartments and houses have gone up near the station, and new housing is being built on the Bray side of the village.
Killiney and Ballybrack are to the north, Loughlinstown and the hospital to the west, Rathmichael up the hill and Bray across the county boundary. Shanganagh Park and the beach at the end of Quinn’s Road are where the village goes on a fine evening.
What we clear in Shankill
- Semi-ds in the estates, cleared after a bereavement or ahead of a sale. A typical house clearance here is a full house with a garage and attic in one day.
- Cottages and terraces on the village street, where the rooms are small, the doors narrow and the back garden is reached through the house.
- Larger detached houses off the Dublin Road and Corbawn Lane, with outbuildings, big attics and gardens full of years of accumulation.
- Garages and sheds, which in Shankill tend to hold bikes, wetsuits, garden tools and the overflow from the house. Our shed clearance page covers the approach.
- Single items: a mattress, a sofa, a fridge, a wardrobe that will not fit in the car.
Access, parking and the practical bits
The estates are easy. Driveways are standard, the roads are wide enough for a van to sit at the kerb and neighbours are used to removals. We load from the door and are away without blocking anyone in.
The village street is tighter. Parking is on-street and limited, the cottages have no side access and everything comes out the front door onto the footpath, so we work quickly and keep the path clear. For the bigger houses towards the sea, long driveways and gates are the norm, and we need the gate open or the code before we arrive.
The Dublin Road is slow at school times and on summer weekends when people head for the beach, so we usually aim for a mid-morning start in Shankill. You do not have to bag or sort anything first.
Why people in Shankill call us
Shankill calls are mostly about family homes. The estates were built for young families in the 1970s and 1980s and those families are now dealing with a parent’s house, often from a distance, often with an estate agent waiting. We approach a bereavement clearance slowly and carefully, and we set aside anything that looks personal or valuable so the family can decide.
The second group is people who have lived in the one house for thirty years and are moving somewhere smaller, who want the garage, the attic and the spare room cleared without having to make twenty trips to the recycling centre in Ballyogan. A van load or two with us does the same job in a morning.
Our Waste Collection Permit is NWCPO-25-13287-01 and we are fully insured for domestic and commercial work. Usable furniture and goods are set aside for reuse or donation, recyclables are separated and the rest goes to a licensed waste transfer station, and our article on where cleared items end up explains it in more detail.
Along the coast we also cover Killiney, Ballybrack and Bray, so a job that straddles the county line is nothing unusual for us.
