Clearing homes in Wexford
Wexford is a Viking town that the Normans walled in, and the shape survives: North and South Main Street run parallel to the quays, with the Bullring, Selskar Abbey and the Westgate tower marking the old limits, and the National Opera House tucked into High Street above them. The streets between Main Street and the water, and up the hill behind it, are rows of narrow two and three-storey houses, some Georgian, most nineteenth century, with steep stairs, small yards and no parking at the door.
Beyond the old town are the terraces and council-built houses of the early and mid twentieth century, and then the estates that grew the town from the 1970s on: Clonard, Coolcotts, Whiterock and Bishopswater on the landward side, and Maudlintown out the Rosslare Road. Across the bridge is Ferrybank, and all around the town are one-off bungalows and farmhouses at Barntown, Castlebridge, Murrintown and Killurin, which is where a lot of the biggest clearances are.
The coast adds another layer: holiday homes at Rosslare Strand, Curracloe and Kilmore Quay that get cleared when they are sold or when the family stops using them, and the ferry port at Rosslare Harbour a short run south. The Opera Festival in the autumn fills the town for a couple of weeks, and summer brings the beach traffic.
What we clear in Wexford
- Full house clearances in Clonard, Coolcotts, Maudlintown, Whiterock and the other estates, before a sale, a move or a new tenancy, including the garage and the attic. Read how to prepare for a house clearance so nothing you want to keep goes out by mistake.
- Terraced and town houses in the old streets, where every piece of furniture comes down a narrow stairs and along a footpath to the van.
- Bereavement clearances for families in Dublin or abroad sorting out a parent’s home in the town or the county. A bereavement clearance checklist is a sensible place to begin.
- Hoarded houses, cleared without fuss or judgement; our hoarder clearance page explains the approach.
- Holiday homes and rural bungalows, from a single van of beach-house furniture at Rosslare Strand to a farmhouse at Castlebridge with full sheds. For a few large pieces rather than a whole house, see furniture removal.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Main Street is narrow, busy and not a place to park a van, so for anything in the old town we use the quays or the nearest side street and carry. The one-way system takes a minute to learn; an early start, before the shops and the school run, makes the difference. Apartment blocks near the quays and the station need a word with the management company about loading, which we handle in advance.
In the estates the van is on the driveway or at the kerb, and in the countryside it is the usual questions about the lane, the gate and the distance from hardstanding to the back shed. Tell us when you send photos.
From Dublin the route is the M50 and the M11 as far as Oilgate, then the N11 into town, and we allow close to two hours each way. That journey is the reason we are selective about Wexford jobs, and the reason we try to schedule two in the county together.
Why people in Wexford call us
We are a Dublin company, and Wexford is at the far edge of where we go. We say that plainly because it shapes everything else: we prioritise full-house and larger clearances here, the travel is built into one fixed quote rather than tacked on, and a single wardrobe is a job for someone local, as our article on how far we travel from Dublin sets out.
The people who ring from Wexford tend to be families in Dublin clearing a parent’s house, executors who want one insured crew for the whole estate, owners of holiday homes they no longer use, and landlords with a house to turn around. What they have in common is a full house, a wish to see photos of empty rooms rather than drive down, and a preference for knowing where everything ends up.
That last part is the waste collection permit, NWCPO-25-13287-01, which means what we load goes to a licensed transfer station once the furniture worth keeping has gone for reuse or donation and the recyclables have been separated out. Heading back up the coast we also cover Gorey and Arklow, and Kilkenny is our other south-eastern run.
