Clearing homes in Tullamore
Tullamore is a canal town. The Grand Canal comes in from the east, widens into the harbour by Bury Quay and carries on west towards the Shannon, and the bonded warehouse that once held Tullamore Dew casks still stands beside the water. O’Connor Square, Church Street, Bridge Street, High Street and Columb Street hold the Georgian and Victorian core, with town houses, terraces, flats over shops and the Bridge Centre, and Charleville Castle sits in its woods on the Birr side of town.
The estates are the second Tullamore. Arden on the Arden Road, Clonminch on the Dublin side, Spollanstown to the west and Marian Place and the older council estates nearer the centre run from the 1970s through the 2000s, and the newer phases went up around the hospital and the Clonminch Road. Three and four-bed semis with a driveway, a side gate and a shed are what most calls are about.
Then there is Offaly itself: flat country, bog, and small farms. The roads to Clara, Kilbeggan, Daingean, Blueball and Mucklagh are lined with bungalows, dormers and two-storey farmhouses, many with a workshop or a hayshed, and these make for the largest clearances we do in the county.
What we clear in Tullamore
- Full house clearances in Arden, Clonminch, Spollanstown and the newer estates, before a sale, a move or a new letting, with the attic and the shed in the same quote.
- Bereavement clearances in the terraces, the council estates and the farmhouses, handled at the family’s pace with personal items set aside. Our bereavement clearance page explains how we work with executors.
- Garages and sheds that hold a lifetime of tools, timber and spares. The garage clearance page describes what we take and what we sort out for scrap.
- Attics in 1970s and 80s houses, boarded out and never emptied, cleared in one go.
- Rural bungalows and farmhouses with outbuildings around the town, quoted as a whole site after photos or a walk-round.
Ninety minutes down the M6
Our crew is Dublin-based and travels out to Tullamore; we do not keep a van in Offaly. From Dublin the route is the M50 to the M4, the M6 to the Tullamore exit and the N52 into town, which is about an hour and a half with a loaded van. We are honest that this makes Tullamore a full-house and larger-jobs area for us, while a single piece of furniture is better served by someone local.
Travel is part of the fixed quote agreed before the day. We group Offaly jobs with Mullingar, Athlone and Longford work wherever we can, so flexibility on the date tends to help the price. Our guide to how far we go from Dublin explains how distance and volume are weighed against each other.
Parking, lanes and getting in
In the estates the van sits on the driveway or at the kerb and we carry out through the hall or the side gate. The town centre around O’Connor Square and Church Street is metered and tight, with one-way streets and flats over shops reached by steep stairs, so we arrive early there and use rear access where there is any.
Country lanes are usually fine for a box van, but a soft yard, a narrow gateway or a long carry from a back shed adds time, so tell us about the approach when you send photos. On Tullamore Show weekend in August the roads around the town fill from early morning, and we avoid it if we can.
Why people in Tullamore call us
Most of our Tullamore work comes from families with a parent’s house to clear and nobody left in the county to do it, from executors with a deadline, and from landlords in the newer estates turning a house around between tenants. In each case the appeal is one crew, one visit and one price, rather than a skip on the drive and a week of carrying.
A two-person crew with a box van handles a standard estate house in a day and a farmhouse with full outbuildings in two. We hold a waste collection permit, so usable furniture and goods go for reuse or donation, metal, timber and cardboard are recycled, and what remains goes to a licensed transfer station. If you want the house ready before we arrive, our post on how to prepare for a house clearance lists the few things that help.
Tullamore sits between Mullingar to the north and Portlaoise to the south-east, and Athlone is a short run west, so a job here is usually part of a midlands day.
