| Early Irish hand-bells C Bourke The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 110, 52-66, 1980 | 56 | 1980 |
| Patrick: the archaeology of a saint C Bourke Stationery Office Books (TSO), 1993 | 36 | 1993 |
| From the Isles of the North: Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Insular Art Held in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7 … C Bourke Stationery Office Books (TSO), 1995 | 32 | 1995 |
| The inscriptions on the Dupplin Cross K Forsyth HMSO, 1995 | 31 | 1995 |
| The hand-bells of the early Scottish church C Bourke Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 113, 464-468, 1984 | 31 | 1984 |
| Antiquities from the River Blackwater IV, early medieval non-ferrous metalwork C Bourke Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 24-133, 2010 | 21 | 2010 |
| Irish croziers of the eighth and ninth centuries C Bourke Ireland and Insular art AD, 500-1200, 1987 | 16 | 1987 |
| The chronology of Irish Crucifixion plaques C Bourke The Age of Migrating Ideas, Early Medieval Art in Northern Britain and …, 1993 | 15 | 1993 |
| Insignia Columbae II C Bourke Studies in the cult of Saint Columba, 162-83, 1997 | 13 | 1997 |
| An Insular brooch-fragment from Norway C Bourke, T Fanning, N Whitfield The Antiquaries Journal 68 (1), 90-98, 1988 | 13 | 1988 |
| (1995) C Bourke From the Isles of the North: Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain, 1994 | 11 | 1994 |
| The early medieval hand-bells of Ireland and Britain C Bourke National Museum of Ireland, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| The Blackwater Shrine C Bourke Dúiche Néill 6, 103-106, 1991 | 10 | 1991 |
| Five Insular enamelled ornaments C Bourke, J Close-Brooks Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 119, 227-237, 1990 | 9 | 1990 |
| Early ecclesiastical hand-bells in Ireland and Britain C Bourke Journal of the Antique Metalware Society 16, 22-8, 2008 | 8 | 2008 |
| Columban Virgins: iconic imnages of the Virgin and Child in Insular sculpture J Hawkes, C Bourke Studies in the cult of Saint Columba, 107-135, 1997 | 8 | 1997 |
| Antiquities from the River Blackwater II, Iron Age Metalwork C Bourke, D Crone Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 109-113, 1993 | 8 | 1993 |
| Clonmore and Bobbio: two seventhcentury shrines' C Bourke Dúiche Néill 14, 24-34, 2001 | 7 | 2001 |
| Studies in the cult of Saint Columba C Bourke Four Courts Press, 1997 | 7 | 1997 |
| Further notes on the Clonmore Shrine C Bourke Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society 16 (2 …, 1995 | 7 | 1995 |
