Murphy Dental Care
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 51.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #19 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
51.7/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1951.7/100
- Best for Expats#1945.8/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1843/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#1936.8/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1849.7/100
- Best for Families / Children#1550.7/100
- 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.
- ✗ General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — No general anaesthesia or deep sedation documented [s1]
Summary
General, cosmetic and implant dental practice on O’Connell Street, Limerick, with a two-dentist team; the site’s dedicated fee page is a JavaScript-rendered Wix component whose figures could not be read without a browser.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 17 of 20 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
18 / 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 About page names Dr Kevin Murphy (Principal Dentist) and Dr Joan Power (Dentist, BA, B.Dent.Sc Hons, MFDS RCSI). [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Checked: both bios describe general-practice experience and continuing education, without naming a specific specialty for either dentist. [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos Verified visually on the clinic's Google place page on 2026-09-08: the lead photograph is the practice's own two clinicians, photographed together in black scrubs in the practice. It is a portrait rather than a view of the premises, and that is said plainly here; what the criterion asks is whether the clinic publishes real photographs of itself rather than stock imagery, and a single-site practice's own named principals in working dress on its own claimed profile answers it. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Nav covers General Dentistry, Children’s Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, Dental Implants, Cosmetic Dentistry and Invisalign. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Footer address ("81 O’Connell Street, Limerick, Ireland, V94TXK2") matches the Google Maps listing. [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ? | Prices or price ranges published The site has a dedicated "Fees" page ("Fee Guide... clear and transparent information about our fees") but the actual figures are rendered by a Wix client-side component and are not present in the fetched HTML — queued for a manual browser check rather than guessed as false. | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
17 / 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 — 113 five-star, 2 four-star, 0 three-star, 1 two-star and 4 one-star — sums to 120, matching the 120 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.825 reproduces the published 4.8. [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 120 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, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 months and two entries at 6 months. 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 The owner answers all eight of the reviews visible on the place page on 2026-09-08. 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 recurring complaints No critical account is readable in the visible sample: all eight reviews are five-star and describe crowns and bridges, extractions, hygienist appointments and the management of severe dental phobia under named clinicians. Four one-star and one two-star rating 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 5 of 120, 4.2 % of the base, well below the 25 % at which the methodology's rule withholds a verdict. 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 113/2/0/1/4 keeps a real negative tail under a published 4.8 and is not a wall. All eight visible reviews fall inside eight months, which is consistent with a young practice: one of them records that the principal, Kevin, «has been my dentist for the past 10 years — first at Alexandra Dental and now at his own practice», which also explains why two Limerick cards in this catalogue share a clinician's history. The accounts name five members of staff (Kevin, Joan, Aoife, Evelyn, Sandra), vary widely in length and register, and the owner answers all eight individually. Nothing suggests solicited or purchased review activity. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Murphy Dental Care Limerick" and "Murphy dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [murphy-dental-care-limerick-presence] [murphy-dental-care-limerick-presence-2] [murphy-dental-care-limerick-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify (checked 2026-10-01). [murphy-dental-care-limerick-deepen-2] [murphy-dental-care-limerick-deepen-3] [murphy-dental-care-limerick-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
5.5 / 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 [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Dedicated Invisalign nav item. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Pediatric dentistry Dedicated Children’s Dentistry nav item. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care Checked the full nav — no dedicated emergency service found. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Works with international patients | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
2.5 / 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 and Wednesday 08:45–18:00, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 08:45–17:00, Saturday and Sunday closed. Under the rule this index applies to every card — evening hours credited only from a close at 19:00 or later on at least one weekday, or any weekend opening — an 18:00 close does not reach it, so this is a checked negative. [gmp2] | 0/1.5 |
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 Rank 6 of 9 for "best dentist Limerick Ireland" (AV-2 re-run, 2026-09-07). [av1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland Rank 7 of 8 for "dental implants Limerick Ireland" (AV-2 re-run, 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); Limerick was not queried for this key. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Checked the homepage, the about page and the fee page: the only JSON-LD is a BreadcrumbList — no LocalBusiness/Dentist/Organization node with address, phone or geo. [s1] [s2] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate nav items per treatment category. [s1] | 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.
- #13Dental Limerick53.6 of 100View report →
- #2Portobello Dental Clinic39.6 of 100View report →
- #3Alexandra Dental Limerick60.8 of 100View report →
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
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Price Transparency: Prices or price ranges published
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Medical Infrastructure: On-site X-ray
- Medical Infrastructure: CBCT (3D imaging)
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- 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.murphydentalcare.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 61 312 300 |
| https://www.facebook.com/murphydentalcare | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 81 O’Connell Street, Limerick, V94 TXK2, 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.murphydentalcare.ie/ | Clinic homepage: nav, footer address/phone, social links | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.murphydentalcare.ie/about-us | Named team page (two dentists, embedded in a Wix media data island) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Murphy%20Dental%20Care%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 |
| reg1 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Murphy | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Kevin Murphy | 2026-09-07 |
| reg2 | https://www.dentalcouncil.ie/dentists?keyword_filter=Power | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Joan Power | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Limerick Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Limerick Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:English speaking dentist Limerick | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Limerick | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@52.6598887,-8.6312094,17z/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/@52.6598887,-8.6312094,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x485b5de34a5ec9cd:0xe2366850cf3c6aa!8m2!3d52.6598887!4d-8.6312094?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Murphy Dental Care», category Dentist, at 81 O'Connell Street, Prior's-Land, Limerick, V94 TXK2, telephone +353 61 312 300, website murphydentalcare.ie — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| murphy-dental-care-limerick-deepen | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-limerick/limerick | WhatClinic: its Limerick city dentist listing (2 pages, 18 clinics), checked against its profile sitemaps (614 dentist profiles in Ireland, 17 of them in Limerick city, all in the listing) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name (not found), have no profile for Murphy Dental Care and none at 81 O'Connell Street; Castletroy Dental Clinic, set up by Ruth Murphy, is another practice (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| murphy-dental-care-limerick-deepen-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/murphydentalcare.ie | Trustpilot: no page for murphydentalcare.ie (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| murphy-dental-care-limerick-deepen-3 | https://www.doctify.com/ie/find/all/practices | Doctify: no profile of the practice among the 315 Irish practice pages Doctify lists (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| murphy-dental-care-limerick-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Murphy%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Murphy Dental Care Limerick", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Gold Coast Holistic Dental Care, Carrara; Dental Solutions - CARE Esthetics, Bountiful; D-Care Turkey Dental Health Clinic, Manavgat) | 2026-10-02 |
| murphy-dental-care-limerick-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Murphy%2… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Murphy dental", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. P.T. Murphy Magic Theatre, Galena; Murphy River Walk, Murphy; Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale) | 2026-10-02 |
| murphy-dental-care-limerick-presence-3 | https://www.murphydentalcare.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | Presence on review platforms checked 2026-10-02: no TripAdvisor listing. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 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 (113/2/0/1/4 = 120, weighted mean 4.825), 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 (120); hasStructuredData settled null → false; the Wix fee table was re-fetched with content-encoding negotiated and still contains no price figures in the served HTML, so the manual browser check row stands and the seven price criteria honestly stay null; both dentists re-confirmed in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, about-us), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (both named dentists checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. Fees page queued for a manual browser check (Wix client-rendered price table). |
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