• A List of the Absentees of Ireland and the yearly value of their estates and incomes spent abroad. With observations on the present state and condition of that kingdom (Dublin: R. Gunne 1729).
• Observations on Coin in General, with some proposals for regulating the value of coin in Ireland (Dublin 1729).
• View of the Present State of Affairs in the Kingdom of Ireland: in three discourses [...], 3 pts. (London: for Weaver Bickerton 1730), 96; 3-32; 24pp. [see details];
• An Essay to Encourage an Extend the Linen-manufacture in Ireland, by praemiums and other means (Dublin 1749) [Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fíor Ghael, 1986, bibl., p.514].

Thomas Prior, Esq. the gentleman to whom the public is indebted for preserving the greatest part of the following correspondence, was bom about the year 1679, at Rathdowney, in the Queen’s County, the estate of his family since the middle of that century. He was educated in the university of Dublin, where he took the degree of A. M. and was fellow-student with our Author. Being of a weak habit of body, he declined entering into any of the learned professions, though otherwise well qualified to have appeared with advantage in them: the great object of his thoughts and studies was to promote the real happiness of his country. In 1729 he published his well-known tract, A List of the Absentees of Ireland, in the close of which he strongly recommended the use of linen scarft at funerals. The hint was adopted by the executors of Mr. Conolly, speaker of the House of Commons, at his public funeral in the month of October of this year; and that mode of burying has been effectually established ever since, to the great emolument of our most capital branch of trade. He published also several tracts relative to our coin, linen, manufacture, &c But the glory of his life, and object of bis unremitting labours, was the founding and promoting of that most useful institution the Dublin Society, of which for a series of years he discharged the duty of secretary. Every good and great man, his contemporary, honoured him with his esteem and (riendship, particularly Philip earl of Chesterfield; of whose interest however his moderation led him to make no other use than to procure, by his Lordship’s recommendation, from the late King a charter of incorporation for his darling child the Dublin Society, with a grant of £600 per annum for its better support. Having spent his life in the practice of every virtue that distinguishes the patriot and the true Christian, he died of a gradual decline in Dublin, October 21, 1751, and was interred in the church of Rathdowney. Over his remains is a neat monument of Kilkenny marble, with an English epitaph; his friends have erected a more magnificent memorial of this useful member of society in the nave of Christ-church, Dublin, the inscription on which came from the elegant pen of our Bishop, and will appear below. (See Views and Descriptions of Dublin, by Pool and Cash, p.102).