# Dublin Castle: Agent-Direct Score B (72.3%)

Site: https://www.dublincastle.ie/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/dublincastle.ie
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Dublin Castle is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Dublin Castle. It can read what Dublin Castle offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://dublincastle.ie/tickets-and-times/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://dublincastle.ie/

## What to fix first
- **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (TouristAttraction, Museum, TravelAgency or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "TouristAttraction",
  "name": "Dublin Castle",
  "url": "https://www.dublincastle.ie/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Castle Street",
    "addressLocality": "Dublin"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.3426502,
    "longitude": -6.2669375
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Sa 09:45-16:45; Su 12:00-16:45",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:45",
      "closes": "16:45"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "16:45"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://dublincastle.ie/tickets-and-times/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# Dublin Castle

> tourist attraction in Castle Street Dublin, Dublin tours, attractions and museums.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://dublincastle.ie/tickets-and-times/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://dublincastle.ie/

## Opening hours

Mo-Sa 09:45-16:45; Su 12:00-16:45

## About

- Website: https://www.dublincastle.ie/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Tickets and prices with prices on the page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Tickets on your own site.** Agents can buy tickets without a marketplace in the loop.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then)
- Fixed: No booking or ordering path at all
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
5 of 71 in Dublin tours, attractions and museums. Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 30% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 0% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 10% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Revenue Museum (F, 59 m, https://directindex.org/r/revenue.ie); Chester Beatty Library (F, 60 m, https://directindex.org/r/chesterbeatty.ie); Garda Museum (F, 122 m, https://directindex.org/r/garda.ie); 747 Travel (D, 169 m, https://directindex.org/r/747.ie); Christ Church Cathedral (C, 295 m, https://directindex.org/r/christchurchcathedral.ie); Civic Museum (F, 304 m, https://directindex.org/r/cityassemblyhouse.ie); The Irish Rock 'n' Roll Museum Experience (C, 313 m, https://directindex.org/r/irishrocknrollmuseum.com); Dublinia (D, 343 m, https://directindex.org/r/dublinia.ie); World of Illusion (C, 356 m, https://directindex.org/r/worldofillusion.ie); Illusion Museum Dublin (C, 370 m, https://directindex.org/r/illusionmuseumdublin.ie).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (29% A or B, 36926 sites); This site 72.3%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/dublincastle.ie/agent-view

## Businesses like Dublin Castle in Dublin tours, attractions and museums

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Dublin tours, attractions and museums | 71 | 51% | 13% | 72.3% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Dublin tours, attractions and museums | 37 | 56% | 22% | 72.3% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Dublin tours, attractions and museums: Jeanie Johnston (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/jeaniejohnston.ie); Marsh's Library (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/marshlibrary.ie); The National Wax Museum Plus (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/waxmuseumplus.ie); EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum (B 72.5%, https://directindex.org/r/epicchq.com); CaminoWays.com (B 71.3%, https://directindex.org/r/caminoways.com).

With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 71 in Dublin tours, attractions and museums.

## The direct record
What agents get for Dublin Castle, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/dublincastle.ie
- Book: https://dublincastle.ie/tickets-and-times/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://dublincastle.ie/ (html_inline; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Sa 09:45-16:45; Su 12:00-16:45 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: none on record
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/dublincastle.ie/book, https://directindex.org/go/dublincastle.ie/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): not measured
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 7 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/dublincastle.ie
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/dublincastle.ie/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/dublincastle.ie/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=dublincastle.ie&force=1