| A Waterford polymath : P.J. Foley, visionary or charlatan | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| Accidents and incidents along the Copper Coast in 19th century | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2017 |
| An index to listings of Irish mining companies, or mining companies which operated in Ireland, in the catalogue of the Board of Trade records held in the Public Record Office, Kew, London. | Cowman, DesMorris, John H. | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| Ballymurtagh Mine, Avoca: a history | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| Cappagh mine, an endangered heritage site | Cowman, DesReilly, Tom | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| Combination, conflict and control : colliers and quarrymen in Tipperary, 1825-45 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| Dating the mines at Ardmore | Cowman, DesGarbett, RosaleenGeaney, John | Article in Journal | | 1993 |
| Drink in the Waterford area to 1840 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Evidence for pre-industrial mining in Waterford | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| Landlords and their minerals c.1850 : two Waterford case studies | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1993 |
| Life and labour in three Irish mining communities c. 1840 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Schools and society in Stradbally in the nineteenth century | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1982 |
| Some local responses to the famine, 1846-'48 | Cowman, Des | Article in Book | | 1995 |
| Survival, statistics and structures, Knockmahon copper mines, 1850-78 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| The civil parish of Rathpatrick in the 19th century | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1982 |
| The copper mines of Killarney | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| The Dungarvan ore ships Part I: The example of the coaster 'Ruby' | Cowman, DesMorris, John | Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| The estate of George Lane Fox | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The famine in Waterford 1845-1850 : Teacht na bPrátaí Dubha | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Geography Publications in association with Waterford County Council | 1995 |
| The German mining operation at Bannow Bay, 1551-1552 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| The German mining operation at Bannow Bay, 1551-52 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1986 |
| The last voyage of the 'Menapia' of Waterford | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The making and breaking of a mining community : the copper coast, Co. Waterford 1825-1875 | Cowman, Des | Monograph or Collective Volume | Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland | 2006 |
| The metal mines of Dublin city and county, c.1740-1825 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| The metal mines of Tipperary | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| The mid-nineteenth century lead mines of County Clare | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1995 |
| The mining boom of 1824-'25: Part I | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| The reformation bishops of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The silver mines - sporadic working, 1289-1874 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1988 |
| The village of Kill revisited | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2019 |
| The Waterford Estates of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (1703-1906) | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 2015 |
| Thomas "Bullocks" Wyse : a Catholic industrialist during the Penal Laws, part 2 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| Thomas (Bullocks) Wyse : a Catholic industrialist during the Penal Laws. Part 1 | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Trade and Society in Waterford City, 1800-1840 | Cowman, Des | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Trade and society in Waterford city, 1800-1840 | Cowman, Des | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Two Kerry lead-silver mines : Kenmare and Castlemaine | Cowman, Des | Article in Journal | | 1990 |