Environmental Sciences Research Institute

  1. Background
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Tom McErlean

Senior Research Fellow

Contact Me
Room G1106
School of Environmental Sciences
University of Ulster
Coleraine campus
Cromore Road
Coleraine
Co. Londonderry
BT52 1SA
Telephone: +44 (0)28 70123094
Email: tc.mcerlean@ulster.ac.uk


Research Group

Centre for Maritime Archaeology

Qualifications

BA Hons Archaeology, Queens University Belfast
BA Hons Politics and English, Queens University Belfast

Experience

05- Research Fellow, University of Ulster
99-05 Research Associate, University of Ulster
87-99 Consultant Archaeologist, DoE Northern Ireland

Research Interests

  • Foreshore archaeology.
  • Coastal settlement and resources.
  • Medieval landscape organisation.
  • The archaeology of parks and gardens.

External Activites

  • 2008 recipient of the Best Scholarly Publication Award (British Archaeological Awards) for ’Harnessing the Tides: The Early Medieval Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough’.
  • 2007 Invited exhibitor, Smithsonian Summer Festival, Washington, USA.
  • Partner in the Europa Cultura 2000 ‘The Tide Mills of Western Europe Project’ (2004-2005).
  • Consultant to DOENI on the maritime archaeology aspects of DEFRA’s draft Marine Bill (2006).
  • 2004 recipient of the Keith Muckelroy Prize (British Archaeological Awards) for ’Strangford Lough: An archaeological survey of the maritime cultural landscape’.

Publications

Number of items: 12.

McErlean, Thomas and McConkey, Rosemary (2008) The 'Otherworld ' of the Coast., NIEA.

McErlean, Thomas and Forsythe, Wes (2008) The Archaeology of the North Coast Salmon Fisheries., NIEA.

McErlean, Thomas (2007) Harnessing the Tides, The Early Medieval Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland Archaeological Monographs No 7. TSO. 468 pp ISBN 978-0-337-08877-3

McConkey, Rosemary and McErlean, Thomas (2007) Mombasa Island: A Maritime Perspective. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 11 (2). pp. 99-121.

McErlean, Thomas (2007) Archaeology of the strangford lough kelp industry in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth centuries. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 41 (3). pp. 76-93.

McErlean, Thomas (2007) The Archaeology of Parks and Gardens, 1600-1900:An introduction to Irish garden archaeology. In: The Post-Medieval Archaeology of Ireland. (Eds: Horning , A, Ó Baoill, R, Donnelly , C and Logue , P), Wordwell, pp. 275-288. ISBN 978 1 905569 13 7

McErlean, Thomas (2007) Harnessing the Tides., NIEA.

McErlean, Thomas, Earwood, Caroline, Moore, Dermot and Murphy, Eileen (2007) The sequence of early Christian period horizontal tide mills at nendrum monastery: An interim statement. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 41 (3). pp. 63-75.

Williams, B and McErlean, Thomas (2002) Maritime archaeology in Northern Ireland. ANTIQUITY, 76 (292). pp. 505-511.

McErlean, Thomas, McConkey, Rosemary and Forsythe, Wes (2002) Strangford Lough: An Archaeological Survey of the Maritime Cultural Landscape. Blackstaff Press. 689 pp ISBN 085640-723-2

Breen, C, Forsythe, W, Lane, P, McErlean, T, McConkey, R, Omar, A Lali, Quinn, R and Williams, B (2001) Ulster and the Indian Ocean? Recent maritime archaeological research on the East African coast. Antiquity, 75 (290). pp. 797-798.

McErlean, Thomas (1983) The Irish Townland System of Landscape Organisation. In: Landscape Archaeology in Ireland. (Eds: Reeves-Smyth , T and Hammond, F), BAR, pp. 315-339. ISBN 978-086-0542162

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