Eyre Square Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 72.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #10 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
72.8/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1072.8/100
- Best for Expats#966.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1268/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#684.9/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#966/100
- Best for Families / Children#1166.6/100
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
Summary
General, cosmetic and implant practice on Eyre Square, Galway, forty years old under current ownership; the team page introduces three dentists by first name only (Eoin, Hilary, James), so individual licences could not be checked with confidence.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 15 of 15 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Team page ("Our Team") introduces "Principle Dentist Eoin", "Dentist Hilary" and "Dentist James" — published by first name only, no surnames given anywhere on the site. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Hilary’s bio: "dual trained, being qualified as a dental technician as well as a dentist... ideally placed to help you with your dentures, crowns and bridges." [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Verified visually on the clinic's Google place page on 2026-09-08: the lead photograph is the practice's own reception — the white desk with a «welcome» ornament on it, the clinic's own framed «EYRE SQUARE DENTAL» wall sign behind, pendant lighting and the treatment-room doors beyond. Premises and signage of this clinic on its own claimed profile. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Fully itemised fee page covering braces, hygiene, root canal, check-ups, general dentistry, dentures, and cosmetic/implant dentistry. [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
15 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Permanent itemised fee page (~20 items). [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Scale and Polish (private) €95; Deep Cleaning (per 60-minute session) €250–300. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Regular white filling €120; large €150; very large €200. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crowns €975. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Implants from €2,500. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Check-up €50; Consultation €100. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed Own-channel statement: "We don’t charge extra fees for x-rays or scans" — published as bundled/included with exams rather than a standalone fee. [s3] | 2/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
15.5 / 20
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) Read live on the place page in a browser on 2026-09-08. Unchanged from the automated reading of 2026-09-07. The star histogram — 135 five-star, 1 four-star, 0 three-star, 2 two-star and 8 one-star — sums to 146, matching the 146 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.733 reproduces the published 4.7. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 5/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-08 from the place-page header, and the star histogram sums to the same figure. The card held 146 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 1 month old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: 1 month, 4 months, 5 months, 7 months and two entries each at 1 year and 2 years. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmp2] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clinic responds to reviews | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints No critical account is readable in the visible sample: all eight reviews are five-star and include two written by visitors treated as emergencies — a tourist with trigeminal inflammation seen within a day «at a very honest price», and a visitor from the United States fitted in on a Friday. Eight one-star and two two-star ratings exist in the distribution and Google's relevance ordering surfaces none of them, while the histogram's star filters do not filter the review list, so their subject cannot be established. One- and two-star ratings together are 10 of 146, 6.8 % of the base, below the 25 % at which the methodology's rule withholds a verdict, so the value is recorded false with the unread mass stated. Sample: the eight reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order — the "Newest" sort does not open to automation, so a review more recent than the newest one visible may exist. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns Judged on the histogram shape, the spread of dates, the variety of reviewers and the wording, on 2026-09-08. The distribution 135/1/0/2/8 is near two-valued — only one four-star and no three-star under a published 4.7 — and that shape is disclosed rather than glossed. Against manipulation: eight one-star ratings stand unpruned; the visible dates spread from one month to two years; the accounts are of very different lengths, in more than one register, and name five different people at the practice (Usain, Evie, the hygienist Sharon, Dr Liam, Dr Eoin); and there is no owner engagement anywhere on the profile, which is not how a curated record behaves. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Facebook page "Eyre Square Dental Clinic" (facebook.com/EyreSquareDental): newest post 2025-12-23, 43 reviews. [eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-5] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Eyre Square Dental Galway" and "Eyre Square"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [eyre-square-dental-galway-presence] [eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-2] [eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms WhatClinic: profile 'Eyre Square Dental Clinic' (1st Floor, 1 Prospect Hill, Eyre Square), rating 4.8 from 14 verified reviews, newest 09.10.2024. [eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-4] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
7.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ? | On-site X-ray | 0/2 |
| ? | CBCT (3D imaging) | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Dedicated Braces price section: Early (interceptive), Regular (metal), Cosmetic (white), Clear Aligners. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Surgical extraction (wisdom tooth) €400. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Child check-up €35. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Checked the homepage and fee page — no dedicated emergency service found. [s1] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ? | WhatsApp / LINE available | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | English spoken [s1] | 2.5/2.5 |
| ? | Pre-visit consultation possible | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Settled from null on 2026-09-08: the clinic's own Google Business Profile publishes the full week — Monday to Wednesday 08:00–20:00, Thursday 08:00–17:00, Friday 08:00–16:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. Three weekday evenings to 20:00 satisfy the rule this index applies to every card, so this is a verified positive rather than an unassessed field. [gmp2] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
3.5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Ireland", "English speaking dentist Ireland", "dental implants Ireland", "emergency dentist Ireland", "Ireland dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Ireland [av1] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland Rank 7 of 8 for "English speaking dentist Galway" (AI-visibility pass, 2026-09-07). [av3] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland Rank 4 of 8 for "dental implants Galway" (AI-visibility pass, 2026-09-07). [av2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Ireland [av4] | 0/1 |
| ? | Mentioned for: Ireland dental clinic for expats Query not run in AI-visibility pass — the single centralised canonical-query AI-visibility pass ran the "dental clinic for expats" query only for the first research city per country (Dublin); Galway was not queried for this key. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Checked the homepage, the about page and the fees page: not one application/ld+json block and no schema.org microdata anywhere on this static site. [s1] [s2] [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages The site has separate pages for individual treatments, e.g. /implants.html, /braces.html, /my-smile.html. [eyre-square-dental-galway-site] | 1.5/1.5 |
Ranking leaders in AI answers
The queries above are this index's own check. The three leading clinics have also been measured in full: how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them when a patient asks them to recommend a dentist.
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Measured by Ansmeter, 8 October 2026. Ansmeter is an affiliated service. Its figure is not part of this rating and does not affect positions — scores change only when public data changes.
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: not checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Eoin (Principal Dentist; surname not published) [s2] | — | not verified |
| Hilary (Dentist; surname not published) [s2] | Dual-trained as a dental technician and dentist; dentures, crowns and bridges (stated area of focus) | not verified |
| James (Dentist; surname not published) [s2] | — | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: Clinic responds to reviews
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Works with international patients
- Communication & Service: WhatsApp / LINE available
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: Pre-visit consultation possible
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- AI & Search Visibility: Mentioned for: Ireland dental clinic for expats
- AI & Search Visibility: Google indexing quality
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 91 562 932 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Unit 301 Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/ | Clinic homepage: testimonials (naming "Dr. Fleetwood" and "Dr Meaney", not counted as a team page) | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/about.html | Own-site About/team page names this dentist (read 2026-09-10): staff photo alt text 'Eoin Fleetwood'; bio text 'OUR TEAM PRINCIPLE DENTIST EOIN — Eoin has worked at Eyre Square Dental since 1997...'. The card's earlier note ('surname not published') predates this photo-alt discovery — the site does publish the surname in image alt text, just not in the running prose the earlier pass read. | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/fees.html | Permanent itemised fee page | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Eyre%20Square%20Dental%2C%2… | Google Maps automated lookup: rating, geo, address, phone, website | 2026-09-07 |
| reg0 | https://www.hiqa.ie/find-a-centre | Confirms Ireland has no institutional/facility register covering private dental practices | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:English speaking dentist Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Galway | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@53.273407,-9.048992,17z/data=!… | The clinic’s Google Maps place page, opened in a real browser on 2026-09-08. The Reviews tab (this URL) gives the headline rating, the review-count header, the five star-histogram buckets read whole from their accessibility labels, and the eight most-relevant reviews with their star values, dates, text and owner replies; the sibling Overview URL https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@53.273407,-9.048992,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x485b96ef7113ea5f:0xee38bd2b54840cc0!8m2!3d53.273407!4d-9.048992?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Eyre Square Dental Clinic», category Dental clinic, at Unit 301 Eyre Square, Galway, telephone +353 91 562 932, website eyresquaredental.ie — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| eyre-square-dental-galway-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Eyre%20S… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Eyre Square Dental Galway", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Eyre Square, Galway; Eyre Square Centre, Galway; Eyre Square Thai Massage, Galway) | 2026-10-02 |
| eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Eyre%20S… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Eyre Square", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Eyre Square, Galway; Eyre Square Centre, Galway; Eyre Square Thai Massage, Galway) | 2026-10-02 |
| eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-3 | https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-4 | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-galway/galway/ey… | WhatClinic: profile 'Eyre Square Dental Clinic', 1st Floor, 1 Prospect Hill, Eyre Square, Galway ("Welcome to Eyre Square Dental"), treating dentist Dr Eoin Fleetwood (also named in the clinic's own site testimonials), rating 4.8 from 14 verified reviews, newest 09.10.2024 (checked 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| eyre-square-dental-galway-presence-5 | https://www.facebook.com/EyreSquareDental/ | Facebook page "Eyre Square Dental Clinic" read 2026-10-02: linked from the clinic's site; About gives Unit 301, Eyre Square Centre and phone +353 91 562 932; 3,267 followers, newest timeline post 2025-12-23, "96% recommend (43 reviews)" | 2026-10-02 |
| eyre-square-dental-galway-site | https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/ | Home page read 2026-10-02: the navigation links separate treatment pages, e.g. /implants.html, /braces.html, /my-smile.html | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: separate treatment pages found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing; WhatClinic profile with 14 reviews; an active Facebook page. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification pass 2026-09-10: all three dentists confirmed via own-site About page staff-photo alt text (Eoin Fleetwood, Hilary Meaney, James Flood), which an automated token match missed because the card's name field carries the parenthetical 'surname not published' annotation as part of the searched string. |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification write-back 2026-09-10: 3 dentists confirmed on the clinic's own about page https://www.eyresquaredental.ie/about.html (full surnames recovered from photo alt attributes: Fleetwood, Meaney, Flood); sources added. |
| 2026-09-08 | Checked by hand in a browser: the clinic’s Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read on both its Reviews and Overview tabs. Recorded from it: the rating re-verified against the star histogram, the review count, the histogram itself (135/1/0/2/8 = 146, weighted mean 4.733), review recency, the owner-reply state, the complaint reading and the manipulation reading from the eight most-relevant reviews, the lead owner photograph and the full published opening week. Fields this pass did not measure are untouched. |
| 2026-09-07 | Adversarial verification: googleReviewCount read live (146); hasStructuredData settled null → false after checking three pages; the first-name-only roster (Eoin, Hilary, James) was re-read on the live site and confirmed — no surname is published anywhere, so the three licences honestly stay null. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about, fees), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists not queried (only first names published for staff, no reliable surname to search), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
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