Shandon Dental
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 58.9/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #17 of 20 ranked clinics · Last checked: 8 September 2026
58.9/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1758.9/100
- Best for Expats#1655/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1652.2/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Care#1249.6/100
- Best Price Transparency#1667.4/100
- Best English-speaking Clinics#1356.2/100
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- 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
Single-dentist general and cosmetic practice on Shandon Street, Cork City, publishing a permanent price list covering exams, hygiene, fillings, root canal, crowns and an explicit emergency-appointment fee.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 16 of 20 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 16 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Medical Infrastructure: 3.5 of 13 verifiable points (missing: on-site X-ray; cBCT (3D imaging); orthodontics; oral surgery; pediatric dentistry)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 7 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland; mentioned for: dental implants Ireland; mentioned for: emergency dentist Ireland; structured data on website)
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
16 / 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 People page names Dr Neil Tully. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Dentist specializations listed Checked: Dr Tully’s profile states no specialisation/qualification beyond being described as "Cork City Dentist". [s2] | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos Looked at on the clinic's Google place page on 2026-09-08 and left unassessed rather than credited. The lead image is a clinical intraoral close-up — a retracted mouth photographed head-on, upper and lower arches in occlusion — which is the practice's own case photography rather than a stock picture, but shows nothing of the clinic. Under the methodology's rule the test is premises, signage, team or equipment, and a clinical close-up is none of them, exactly as it was for the Lugano card in the previous group. The clinic's own website was not opened for this purpose in this pass, so the field stays null rather than false. [gmp2] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Treatments nav plus a fully itemised price list. [s1] [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details [s1] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Price-list page footer address ("Shandon Dental, 4 Shandon Street, Shandon, Cork City, T23 PX39") matches the Google Maps listing exactly. [s3] [gmp1] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
11 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published Permanent price list of ~15 items (examinations, hygiene, fillings, root canal, crowns, dentures, whitening, cosmetic injectables). [s3] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Hygiene visit €70; Guided Biofilm Therapy €90. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed White/composite filling €120–160. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Crowns from €850. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed Checked: the price list has no implant line item at all; the practice does not appear to offer implants. [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Consultation price listed Examination €50; Exam + Scale/polish €100. [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed Checked: no x-ray line item on the price list. [s3] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
16 / 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 — 181 five-star, 2 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star and 5 one-star — sums to 188, matching the 188 in the place-page header exactly, and its weighted mean 4.883 reproduces the published 4.9. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | 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 188 and the listing has not moved since. [gmp1] [gmp2] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 2 months old, which proves the within_3_months bucket and no better. Visible dates: three entries at 2 months, one at 3 months, one at 5 months, two at 6 months and one at 9 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 None of the 13 reviews read on Google carries an owner reply, including the 12 dated 2025-10-05 to 2026-09-30. [shandon-dental-cork-deepen-4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints This is the verdict in the group that Google's truncation decides rather than the evidence, and that is said plainly. Two of the eight visible reviews are one-star and both begin from a filling. One, three months old, is fully readable and severe: «I don't want botox. I don't want veneers. I don't want teeth whitening. I want an urgent extraction of the painful tooth that you ruined. You filled my tooth three times and three times the filling fell out within a few days or weeks» — a failed restoration, redone three times, and cosmetic treatments offered where the patient wanted the tooth dealt with. The other, five months old, opens «I recently attended this clinic for a dental filling. The procedure itself was completed, and initially I felt grateful that the issue had been addressed» — and breaks off at the truncation before saying what went wrong; the continuation is not in the page and Google will not expand it to automation. If that account continues into the same territory, two readable negatives share one theme and the verdict becomes true; on what can actually be read, only one theme is established, so it is recorded false. One- and two-star ratings together are 5 of 188, 2.7 % of the base. Neither critical account has an owner reply, and nor does any other review here. 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 181/2/0/0/5 is near two-valued under a published 4.9 and every one of the eight visible reviews falls inside nine months; both facts are disclosed. Against manipulation: five one-star ratings stand unpruned, including the fully readable and damaging account quoted above, which a curated record would not carry on its first page; the positive accounts are long and specific and name five different clinicians and nurses (Seamus, Neil, TJ, the nurse Ciara, the hygienists); and there is no owner engagement anywhere on the profile at all, which is the opposite of a managed record. [gmp2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Shandon Dental Cork" and "Shandon dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor. [shandon-dental-cork-presence] [shandon-dental-cork-presence-2] [shandon-dental-cork-presence-3] | 0/0.5 |
| ✗ | Other review platforms No profile found on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify (checked 2026-10-01). [shandon-dental-cork-deepen-2] [shandon-dental-cork-deepen-3] [shandon-dental-cork-deepen] | 0/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
3.5 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✗ | On-site X-ray [s3] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | CBCT (3D imaging) [s3] [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology The clinic’s own "Our Treatments" page opens with a Dental Implants section ("A dental implant is a long lasting treatment option…") and its Cosmetic Dentistry paragraph names "the fitting of implants, bridges and veneers". Only the price list omits implants. [s3] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics Checked treatments page — no orthodontics/braces service found. [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Oral surgery Checked price list and treatments page — no extraction/surgical service listed. [s3] [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry [s3] [s4] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Emergency care "Emergency Appointment €75" published on the price list. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | 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 09:00–18:00, Tuesday 09:00–20:00, Wednesday and Thursday 09:00–18:00, Friday 09:00–17:00, Saturday 09:00–13:00, Sunday closed. Both halves of the rule this index applies are satisfied — a weekday close at 20:00 and a Saturday morning surgery — so this is a verified positive rather than an unassessed field. [gmp2] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
2.5 / 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 8 of 8 for "best dentist Cork Ireland" (AI-visibility pass, 2026-09-07). [av1] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Ireland [av3] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Ireland [av2] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | 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); Cork was not queried for this key. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website Only generic Yoast SEO WebPage/WebSite/Organization JSON-LD; no address/phone in the Organization node. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Google indexing quality | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages The site has separate pages for individual treatments, e.g. /our-treatments/teeth-whitening-cork-city/, /our-treatments/tooth-crown-cork-city/, /our-treatments/dentures-cork-city-dentist/. [shandon-dental-cork-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.
- #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
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Neil Tully [reg1] | — | IDC 12819 |
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- 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.shandondental.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 21 430 5569 |
| https://www.facebook.com/shandondental | |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 4 Shandon Street, Shandon, Cork City, T23 PX39, 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.shandondental.ie/ | Clinic homepage: nav, schema.org Organization block, social links | 2026-09-07 |
| s2 | https://www.shandondental.ie/people/ | Named team page | 2026-09-07 |
| s3 | https://www.shandondental.ie/price-list/ | Permanent itemised price list and address/contact block | 2026-09-07 |
| s4 | https://www.shandondental.ie/our-treatments/ | Treatments page (checked for implants/orthodontics/surgery/pediatric/sedation — none found) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/search?tbm=map&q=Shandon%20Dental%2C%20Cork&… | 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=Tully | Dental Council Register of Dentists entry for Neil Tully | 2026-09-07 |
| av1 | search:best dentist Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av2 | search:dental implants Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av3 | search:English speaking dentist Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| av4 | search:emergency dentist Cork Ireland | (the five canonical city queries) | 2026-09-07 |
| gmp2 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/x/@51.9043879,-8.4772261,17z/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/@51.9043879,-8.4772261,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48449013b720e9e1:0x3f08d57d7ea3ba7d!8m2!3d51.9043879!4d-8.4772261?hl=en gives the listing name, address, telephone, website, business category, the published opening week and the lead owner photograph. The listing opens as «Shandon Dental», category Dentist, at 4 Shandon Street, Shandon, Cork City, T23 PX39, telephone +353 21 430 5569, website shandondental.ie — the identifiers the card itself carries, so the place identifier resolves to this practice and not to a neighbour. | 2026-09-08 |
| shandon-dental-cork-deepen | https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/ireland/county-cork/cork | WhatClinic: its Cork city dentist listing (4 pages, 32 clinics shown), checked against its profile sitemaps (614 dentist profiles in Ireland, 18 of them in Cork city; the 2 not shown in the listing opened) and the profile addresses built from the clinic's name (not found), have no profile for Shandon Dental and none at 4 Shandon Street (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| shandon-dental-cork-deepen-2 | https://www.trustpilot.com/review/shandondental.ie | Trustpilot: no page for shandondental.ie (checked 2026-10-01) | 2026-10-01 |
| shandon-dental-cork-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 |
| shandon-dental-cork-presence | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Shandon%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Shandon Dental Cork", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Shandon Sweets, Cork; Delta Dental Stadium, Manchester; Doc Holliday Dental Office, Griffin) | 2026-10-02 |
| shandon-dental-cork-presence-2 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&query=Shandon%… | TripAdvisor's own search for "Shandon dental", run 2026-10-02, returns 12 results, none of them this clinic (e.g. Shandon Chapel Hill Church, Shandon; Shandon Sweets, Cork; Shandon Park Golf Club, Belfast) | 2026-10-02 |
| shandon-dental-cork-presence-3 | https://www.shandondental.ie/ | Clinic's website (home and contact pages) read 2026-10-02: no link to TripAdvisor | 2026-10-02 |
| shandon-dental-cork-site | https://www.shandondental.ie/sitemap_index.xml | Sitemap read 2026-10-02: 34 URLs, including separate treatment pages, e.g. /our-treatments/teeth-whitening-cork-city/, /our-treatments/tooth-crown-cork-city/, /our-treatments/dentures-cork-city-dentist/ | 2026-10-02 |
| shandon-dental-cork-deepen-4 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=4542114959175432829&hl=en | Google listing "Shandon Dental" (Dentist, Cosmetic dentist, Dental clinic, Teeth whitening service), read 2026-10-02 in three review orders (newest, lowest-rated, most relevant first): 4.9 from 189 reviews (1★ 5 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 182); 13 distinct reviews read, dated 2023-06-17 to 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Read 13 of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-02: no owner replies seen. |
| 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. |
| 2026-10-01 | Other review platforms re-checked on 2026-10-01: no profile on WhatClinic, Trustpilot or Doctify; onOtherPlatforms set to false. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 8 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 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 (181/2/0/0/5 = 188, weighted mean 4.883), 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 (188); offersImplantology corrected false → true against the clinic’s own Our Treatments page already cited as s4; Dr Neil Tully re-confirmed in a full download of the Register of Dentists. |
| 2026-09-07 | Initial data collection: clinic website (home, people, price list, treatments), Dental Council of Ireland Register of Dentists (one named dentist checked and found), Google Maps automated lookup, AI-visibility pass canonical-query file. |
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