| 'Born astride of a grave': the geography of the dead | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | Cork University Press | 2012 |
| 'Mapping the people': the growth and distribution of the population | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| 'Variations in vulnerability':: understanding where and why people died | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| A plurality of Irelands : regions, societies and mentalities | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1997 |
| Classify, confine, discipline and punish - the Roscrea Union: a microgeography of the workhouse system during the Famine | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| Common ground : essays on the historical geography of Ireland, presented to T. Jones Hughes | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Cork University Press | 1988 |
| Continuity and change in the territorial organisation of Irish rural communities | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1975 |
| Estate records and the making of the Irish landscape : an example from Co. Tipperary | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1976 |
| Excavating, mapping and interrogating ancestral terrains : towards a cultural geography of first names and second names in Ireland | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2004 |
| Exodus from Ireland - patterns of emigration | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| Exploring the social and cultural topographies of sixteenth and seventeenth century County Dublin | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Geographical perspectives on the nature of change in rural Ireland | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Ireland a colony : settlement implication of the revolution in military-administrative, urban and ecclesiastical structures c.1550 to c.1730 | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1999 |
| Land values, land ownership and population patterns in County Tipperary for 1641-60 and 1841-50 : some comparisons | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1980 |
| Landholding changes, kinship networks and class transformation in rural Ireland : a case study from county Tipperary | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Making the documents of conquest speak : the transformation of property, society, and settlement in seventeenth-century counties Tipperary and Kilkenny | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Map-making, landscapes and memory : a geography of colonial and early modern Ireland, c.1530-1750 | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Monograph or Collective Volume | Cork University Press in association with Field Day | 2006 |
| Mapping Irish colonialism : a round-table | Andrews, J. H. (John Harwood)Clayton, DanielCronin, NessaHennessy, MarkKearns, GerardSmyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| Measuring heads, bodies and evaluating family farming and occupational continuities : revisiting the 1931-36 Harvard Anthropological Survey of Co. Clare / Ireland | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| Property, patronage and population - re-constructing the human geography of mid-seventeenth century Tipperary | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1985 |
| Review. 'Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape' (2nd ed) and historical geography | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 2012 |
| Semi-colonial Ireland? | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2004 |
| Social geography of rural Ireland : inventory and prospect | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| Social, economic and landscape transformations in county Cork from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1993 |
| Society and settlement in seventeenth-century Ireland : the evidence of the "1659 Census" | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1988 |
| Territorial, social and settlement hierarchies in seventeenth century Kilkenny | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| The atlas of the Great Irish Famine | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Cork University Press | 2012 |
| The creation of the workhouse system | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The cultural geography of rural Ireland in the twentieth century | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Famine in the County Tipperary parish of Shanrahan | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The greening of Ireland - tenant tree-planting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1997 |
| The longue durée - imperial Britain and colonial Ireland | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The making of Ireland : agendas and perspectives in cultural geography | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 1993 |
| The province of Connacht and the Great Famine | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The province of Leinster and the Great Famine | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The province of Munster and the Great Famine | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The province of Ulster and the Great Famine | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The roles of cities and towns during the Great Famine | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-52: a geographical perspective | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The western isle of Ireland and the eastern seaboard of America - England's first frontiers | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1978 |
| Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising / rebellion | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| Towns and town life in mid-seventeenth century Co. Tipperary | Smyth, W. J. (William John), 1944- | Article in Journal | | 1991 |