| Harnessing the tides : the early medieval tide mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough | Crothers, NormanMcErlean, Thomas, | Monograph or Collective Volume | The Stationery Office : Environment and Heritage Service | 2007 |
| Maritime archaeology in Northern Ireland | McErlean, ThomasWilliams, B. | Article in Journal | | 2002 |
| Recreating Kylemore - an exercise in garden archaeology | Golden, AnnJupp, BelindaMcErlean, Thomas | Article in Journal | | 2000 |
| The archaeology of parks and gardens, 1600-1900 : an introduction to Irish garden archaeology | McErlean, Thomas | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| The Irish townland system of landscape organisation | McErlean, Thomas | Article in Book | | 1983 |
| The monastic tide mills of Nendrum | McErlean, Thomas | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| The sequence of early Christian period horizontal tide mills at Nendrum monastery : an interim statement | Earwood, Caroline,McErlean, Thomas C.Moore, Dermot,Murphy, Eileen | Article in Journal | | 2007 |
| Tidal power | Crothers, NormanMcErlean, Thomas | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| Tidal power in the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. | McErlean, Thomas | Article in Journal | | 2001 |