Macdonald, A D S and Lloyd R. Laing 1968, ‘Early Ecclesiastical Sites in Scotland: a Field Survey, Part I’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 100, 123-34.

Macdonald, A D S and Lloyd R. Laing, 1970, ‘Early Ecclesiastical Sites in Scotland: a Field Survey, Part II’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 102, 129-45.

Macdonald, A D S 1973, ‘“Annat” in Scotland : A Provisional Review’, Scottish Studies 17, 135–46.

Macdonald, A D S 1974, ‘Two major early monasteries of Scottish Dalriata: Lismore and Eigg’, Scottish Archaeological Forum 5, 47-57.

Macdonald, A D S & Laing, L R 1975  'Excavations at Lochmaben Castle, Dumfriesshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 106 (1974-75) ,124-57.

Macdonald, A D S 1977, “Old Norse ‘Papar’ names in N. and W. Scotland’, in Studies in Celtic Survival, ed. L. Laing, (British Archaeological Reports, Oxford), 107–11.

Macdonald, A D S 1977, ‘On ‘Papar’ names in north and west Scotland ’, Northern Studies 9, 25–30.

Macdonald, A D S 1979, Gaelic Cill (Kil(l)-) in Scottish Place-Names’, Bulletin of the Ulster Place-name Society, series 2, vol.2, 9–22.

Macdonald, A D S 1981, ‘Notes on monastic archaeology and the Annals of Ulster, 650-1050’, in, Irish Antiquity: Essays and Studies Presented to Professor M. J. O'Kelly, ed. D. Ó Corráin (Cork), 304-19.

Macdonald, A D S 1981, ‘Caiseal, Cathair, Dùn, Lios and Ràth in Scotland , I: Dùn’, Bulletin of the Ulster Place-name Society, series 2, vol. 3, 30–9.

MacDonald, A. D. S., “Notes on terminology in the Annals of Ulster, 650-1050”, Peritia 1 (1982): 329–333.

Macdonald, A D S 1982, ‘Caiseal, Cathair, Dùn, Lios and Ràth in Scotland , II: Ràth’, Bulletin of the Ulster Place-name Society, series 2, vol. 4, 32–57.

MacDonald, Aidan. (1984) The church names in Adamnán's life of Columba In: Nomina. Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland vol. 8 (1984) p. 83-84

MacDonald, Aidan. (1984) Major early monasteries: some procedural problems for field archaeologists In: Studies in Scottish Antiquity Presented to Stewart Cruden Breeze, David John [Publ.]. - Edinburgh (1984), p. 69-86

Macdonald, A D S 1984, ‘Aspects of the monastery and monastic life in Adomnán’s Life of Columba’, Peritia 3, 271- 302.

MacDonald, Aidan, “Obituary: Deirdre Flanagan”, Peritia 3 (1984): 595–596.

Macdonald, A D S 1985, ‘Iona ’s style of government among the Picts and Scots: the toponymic evidence’, Peritia 4, 174-86.

Macdonald, A D S 1987, ‘Caiseal, Cathair, Dùn, Lios and Ràth in Scotland , 3: Lios’, Ainm (Journal of the Ulster Place-name Society) 2, 37–54.

Macdonald, A D S 1987a, ‘Notes on Scots Clachan’, Ainm (Journal of the Ulster Place-name Society) 2, 83–95.

Macdonald, A D S 1992, Curadán, Boniface and the early church of Rosemarkie (Groam House Museum lecture publications, Rosemarkie).

Macdonald, A D S 1995, ‘A fruit tree at Durrow’, Hallel 20.1, 10-14. 

Macdonald, A D S 1997, ‘Adomnán’s monastery of Iona’, in Studies in the Cult of Saint Columba, ed. C. Bourke (Dublin), 24-44.  

Macdonald, A D S 1998, ‘When were St Columba’s corporeal relics enshrined?’ Hallel 23.1, 20-30.

Lloyd Laing, Jennifer Laing and David Longley with a contribution by A D S Macdonald (sic) 'The Early Christian and later medieval ecclesiastical site at St Blane's, Kingarth, Bute, ',  Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 128 (1998), 551-565. The contribution is, 'Early Kingarth’, on 553-555.

MacDonald A D S 1999, ‘Reiclés in the Irish annals to ad 1200’, Peritia 13 (1999), 259–75

Macdonald, A D S 2001, ‘Aspects of the monastic landscape in Adomnán’s Life of Columba’, in Studies in Irish Hagiography, Saints and Scholars, ed. J. Carey, M. Herbert and P. Ó Riain (Dublin), 15-30.

Macdonald, A D S 2002, ‘The papar and some Problems: a brief Review’, in Crawford, Barbara E., 2002 (ed.), The Papar in the North Atlantic: Environment and History, The Proceedings of a Day Conference held on 24th February 2001, ed. B. E. Crawford (St Andrews), 13-30.

MacDonald 2003, ‘The “cathedral”, Temple Kelly and Temple Ciarán: notes from the annals’, in Clonmacnoise Studies, Volume 2: Seminar Papers, 1998, ed. H. King, Dublin, 2003, 125–35

Macdonald, A D S 2010, ‘Adomnán’s Vita Columbae and the early churches of Tiree’, in Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker, ed. Jonathan M. Wooding, with Rodney Aist, Thomas Owen Clancy and Thomas O’Loughlin (Dublin), 219-36.

Macdonald, A D S 2011, ‘Seeking the desert in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae’, in Listen, O Isles unto Me, Studies in Medieval Word and Image in Honour of Jennifer O’Reilly, ed. E. Mullins and D. Scully (Cork), 191- 203.

Macdonald, A D S 2012, ‘Curadan-Boniface Revisited’, in Scottish Place-Name News no. 32 (Spring 2012), 6-7 (summary of a paper given to the Scottish PlaceName Society conference in Dingwall, November 2011).