Bereavement Clearance in Dublin

There is no good time to clear a house after a death. There is often a deadline — a sale, a tenancy ending, a council or landlord wanting the keys, probate that can’t move until the house is empty — and there is almost always more in the house than anyone expected. Families divide between the ones who want it done and the ones who can’t face it, and the one who lives nearest ends up with the job.

We’ve done a great many of these. The crew is briefed to be quiet and careful; nobody comments on anything; paperwork, photographs, jewellery and anything that looks personal is set aside without being asked; and we work on the days and at the pace the family can manage. ManageWaste.ie is operated by Krystal Klean Express Limited, permit NWCPO-25-13287-01, and we can deal directly with the executor or solicitor if that’s easier for you. We’re based in Athy and run into Dublin daily — city-centre jobs are about 75 minutes from our yard, which is why we schedule Dublin work in rounds rather than one-offs, and why our quotes for Dublin don’t carry a long-distance premium.

On this page: Full clearance · Partial clearance · Every area in Dublin · What the council offers · How it works · Quick quote · Pricing · FAQs

What we take — and what we don’t

• Furniture, beds, mattresses and the contents of every room
• Personal effects — gathered, boxed and kept for the family
• Clothes and textiles — sorted for charity where possible
• Kitchen contents, appliances and white goods
• Medical equipment, mobility aids, hospital beds (we can arrange return where they’re on loan)
• Attic, garage, shed and garden
• Paperwork — set aside unread for the executor
• Cleaning to broom-clean standard, with a full clean available

Not included: Valuing or selling contents (we can suggest auctioneers); Legal advice on probate or tenancy — ask your solicitor; Hazardous waste.

Bereavement Clearance across Dublin: every area we cover

We provide a bereavement clearance in all 161 areas below, and at the rural addresses between them. Dublin is four local authorities, not one, and that matters more than most people realise when they’re getting rid of things. Dublin City Council runs a bookable bulky-waste collection; Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown don’t collect bulky waste at all. Where you live decides what the council will and won’t do for you — so on this page we’ve split the county by council area, named every area we cover, and set out exactly what each council offers so you can compare it with simply calling us.

Housing stock varies enormously: Victorian and Edwardian terraces on the canals with narrow halls and no off-street parking, 1930s–60s semis in Crumlin, Cabra, Drimnagh and Finglas, the big apartment developments along the Luas lines and in the Docklands, and newer estates on the edges in Fingal and South Dublin. Access is the thing that changes a Dublin job: parking suspensions on the quays, management-company rules in apartment blocks, and the three-storey Georgian house with everything in the attic.

Dublin City Council area

The city centre, the inner suburbs north and south of the Liffey, and everywhere from Ballymun down to Terenure and from Ballyfermot across to Ringsend.

• Artane
• Ashtown
• Ballsbridge
• Ballybough
• Ballyfermot
• Ballygall
• Ballymun
• Beaumont
• Bluebell
• Broadstone
• Cabra
• Chapelizod
• Cherry Orchard
• Clontarf
• Clonturk
• Coolock
• Crumlin
• Darndale
• Dartry
• Dollymount
• Dolphin's Barn
• Donaghmede
• Donnybrook
• Donnycarney
• Drimnagh
• Drumcondra
• East Wall
• Fairview
• Finglas
• Glasnevin
• Grangegorman
• Harold's Cross
• Inchicore
• Irishtown
• Islandbridge
• Kilbarrack
• Killester
• Kilmainham
• Kimmage
• Marino
• Merrion
• Milltown (Co. Dublin)
• North Strand
• North Wall
• Phibsborough
• Poppintree
• Portobello
• Raheny
• Ranelagh
• Rathgar
• Rathmines
• Rialto
• Ringsend
• Sandymount
• Santry
• Smithfield
• Stoneybatter
• Terenure
• The Coombe
• The Liberties
• Walkinstown
• Whitehall

Fingal (north Dublin)

Swords, Blanchardstown, Malahide, Balbriggan and the coastal towns up to the Meath border, plus the rural villages inland.

• Balbriggan
• Baldoyle
• Balgriffin
• Ballyboughal
• Balrothery
• Bayside
• Blanchardstown
• Castleknock
• Clongriffin
• Clonsilla
• Coolmine
• Corduff
• Damastown
• Donabate
• Garristown
• Hollystown
• Howth
• Kinsealy
• Loughshinny
• Lusk
• Malahide
• Mulhuddart
• Naul
• Oldtown
• Ongar
• Portmarnock
• Portrane
• Rolestown
• Rush
• Skerries
• Sutton
• Swords
• Tyrrelstown

South Dublin County

Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathfarnham, Templeogue and the villages out to Saggart, Rathcoole and Brittas.

• Adamstown (Co. Dublin)
• Athgoe
• Ballyboden
• Ballymount
• Ballyroan (Co. Dublin)
• Bohernabreena
• Brittas
• Citywest
• Clondalkin
• Edmondstown
• Firhouse
• Jobstown
• Johnstown (Co. Dublin)
• Kilnamanagh
• Knocklyon
• Lucan
• Newcastle (Co. Dublin)
• Oldbawn
• Palmerstown
• Perrystown
• Rathcoole
• Rathfarnham
• Rockbrook
• Saggart
• Tallaght
• Templeogue
• Whitechurch (Co. Dublin)

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock, Dundrum, Stillorgan, Sandyford and the coast down to Shankill, plus the foothills around Stepaside and Glencullen.

• Ballinteer
• Ballybrack
• Barnacullia
• Belfield
• Blackrock (Co. Dublin)
• Booterstown
• Cabinteely
• Carrickmines
• Cherrywood
• Churchtown
• Clonskeagh
• Cornelscourt
• Dalkey
• Deansgrange
• Dún Laoghaire
• Dundrum
• Foxrock
• Glasthule
• Glenageary
• Glencullen
• Goatstown
• Kill O' The Grange
• Killiney
• Kilmacud
• Kilternan
• Leopardstown
• Loughlinstown
• Monkstown
• Mount Merrion
• Rathmichael
• Roebuck
• Sallynoggin
• Sandycove
• Sandyford
• Shankill
• Stepaside
• Stillorgan
• Ticknock
• Windy Arbour

Doing it yourself in Dublin: what the councils offer

Before you ring anyone, here is the honest picture of what Dublin’s four councils will and won’t do for a bereavement clearance. Furniture and bulky items are accepted at Ringsend Recycling Centre, North Strand Recycling Centre, Ballymun Recycling Centre, Coolmine Recycling Centre, Estuary Recycling Centre, Ballymount Civic Amenity and Ballyogan Recycling Park, with mattresses charged separately (Mattresses €35 each on top of the gate fee). Grangegorman Bring Centre, Oscar Traynor Road Bring Centre (Coolock), Gullistan Terrace Bring Centre (Rathmines), Windmill Road Bring Centre (Crumlin), Herzog Park Bring Centre (Rathgar), Kylemore Park North Bring Centre (Ballyfermot), Eamonn Ceannt Park Bring Centre (Crumlin), Eden Park Recycling Centre and Shanganagh Recycling Centre do not accept furniture or mattresses at all. Watch the vehicle rules: Vans and vehicles with a double-axle trailer pay €95; car with single-axle trailer €55. Full large or commercial vans are not accepted. Household use only.

Dublin City Council — runs a bookable bulky household waste collection: Bulky Household Waste Collection Service for all households in the DCC area (domestic only, not commercial premises). Book online via Citizen Hub (citizenhub.dublincity.ie) or phone (01) 222 2222; pay in advance by debit/credit card. €50 per collection for up to 5 items (a three-piece suite counts as 3 items); each additional 5 items +€50. Normally contacted within 5 working days; collection may take up to 10 days after payment, Mon–Fri 8am–3pm, and you cannot choose the date. Items go on the public footpath on the morning of collection (not collected from gardens, sheds or inside). Full refund if cancelled at least 24 hours before the collection date. Accepts household furniture, bedding and mattresses, carpets, kitchen units/worktops/sinks, doors, bathroom and toilet suites, bicycles, ladders, garden furniture and barbecues, fully drained oil tanks/boilers/radiators, children's swings/slides, prams/buggies/large toys. Not accepted: bagged household or bin waste, garden waste, rubble/soil/plasterboard/asbestos, large amounts of renovation waste, glass, gas cylinders, paints and other hazardous waste, batteries, fluorescent tubes, electrical goods.

Fingal County Council — no bulky-waste collection. Fingal County Council does not offer a bulky waste collection service. Use an authorised collector with a National Waste Collection Permit Office (NWCPO) permit – the council publishes a list – or bring items to Coolmine or Estuary recycling centres for the per-vehicle fee.

South Dublin County Council — no bulky-waste collection. No council bulky collection – SDCC exited the waste collection service in 2011 and has no plans to reintroduce it. Residents use permitted private collectors or bring items to Ballymount Civic Amenity. The council runs periodic free community initiatives with social enterprise RecycleIT, e.g. a mattress amnesty (in 2025 mattresses could also be dropped free at RecycleIT, Crag Industrial Estate, D22) and door-to-door WEEE collection days before Halloween.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council — no bulky-waste collection. DLR transferred its household waste collection service to private companies in 2010 and offers no bulky-waste kerbside collection. Residents use permitted private collectors or bring items to Ballyogan Recycling Park. Occasional free Mattress Amnesty Days are held at Ballyogan (most recent: Saturday 5 September 2026, 9:30am–5:30pm).

Council details are taken from the councils’ own published information and checked periodically; hours and charges change, so confirm with the site before travelling. Where a council hasn’t published a charge we say so rather than guess.

Or we come to you

Set that against a collection from us: no van to borrow, no gate fee, no weighbridge surprise, no two-mattress limit, no carrying it down the stairs yourself, and no question about whether the site will turn your load away. We quote a fixed price from photos, we load it, and it leaves under our waste collection permit (NWCPO-25-13287-01). For a single item the council site can be cheaper if you already have the van and the time; for anything more than a car-boot load, we usually are.

How a bereavement clearance works with us

1. 
   A conversation first. By phone or in person. We listen to what’s needed, who needs to be involved, and what the timing is.
2. 
   Walk-through and a plan. What’s kept, what’s going where, what order the rooms go in. Written down so everyone in the family has it.
3. 
   The clearance. Quiet, careful, at your pace. Personal items gathered. Reuse arranged where possible.
4. 
   Handover. Photos of every room, keys returned as agreed, a clearance letter for probate if needed.

What affects the price in Dublin

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  Volume — a lifetime’s belongings is usually more than one load
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  Access and stairs
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  Reuse and charity — good furniture reduces the disposal cost and we pass it on
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  Staged visits — several small visits cost a little more than one, but we keep it fair
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  A full clean, if wanted, is quoted separately

We’re based in Athy and run into Dublin daily — city-centre jobs are about 75 minutes from our yard, which is why we schedule Dublin work in rounds rather than one-offs, and why our quotes for Dublin don’t carry a long-distance premium. Send photos through the quote form or on WhatsApp and you’ll have a fixed price the same day.

Recent clearances

Photos are from our own clearances across Dublin and Leinster, not necessarily in Dublin.

Bereavement Clearance in Dublin: frequently asked questions

Bereavement Clearance in other counties

Outside Dublin, a bereavement clearance is carried out as part of our house clearance service, with the same crew and the same permit: House Clearance Kildare · House Clearance Wicklow · House Clearance Kilkenny · House Clearance Laois · House Clearance Carlow · House Clearance Meath · House Clearance Louth · House Clearance Longford · House Clearance Offaly · House Clearance Westmeath · House Clearance Wexford