List of cricket grounds in Ireland

This is a list of cricket grounds in Ireland, inclusive of all-Ireland.

Cricket was introduced to Ireland by the English in the towns of Kilkenny and Ballinasloe in the early 19th century.^[1] The game increased in popularity until the early 1880s. The Land War in the 1880s resulting from the Irish Land Commission and a ban on playing "foreign" games by the Gaelic Athletic Association set back the spread of cricket.^[1] Anyone playing foreign games such as cricket would be banned from the extremely popular Irish games such as hurling and Gaelic football, which in turn had a detrimental impact on the game.^[1] The ban was not lifted until 1970, after which time cricket has continued to grow in popularity.

Men's international venues

• For a full list of grounds that have staged men's international matches, see List of international men's cricket grounds in Ireland

Domestic Teams

Leinster Lightning

• For a full list of grounds that Leinster Lightning have used as home grounds in first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket, see List of Leinster Lightning grounds

Munster Reds

• For a full list of grounds that Munster Reds have used as home grounds in Twenty20 cricket, see List of Munster Reds grounds

Northern Knights

• For a full list of grounds that Northern Knights have used as home grounds in first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket, see List of Northern Knights grounds

North West Warriors

• For a full list of grounds that North West Warriors have used as home grounds in first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket, see List of North West Warriors grounds

Other venues

First-class venues

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		First-class			List A
Beechgrove	Derry	only match: 27 July 1963 Scotland		1	–	–	0	[2][3]
College Park	Dublin	20 May 1895 Dublin University v Marylebone Cricket Club	12 August 1961 Ireland v Marylebone Cricket Club	28	–	–	0	[4][5]
Lodge Road	Coleraine	18 July 1987 Scotland	13 August 2012 Ireland v South Africa A	2	–	–	0	[6][7]
Pollock Park	Lurgan	only match: 20 July 1999 Ireland v South Africa Academy		1	4 July 2005 Uganda v United States	7 July 2005 Uganda v United Arab Emirates	2	[8][9][10]

List A venues

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		List A
Ballygomartin Road	Belfast	only match: 1 July 2005 Canada v Namibia		1	[11][12]
Drummond Cricket Club Ground	near Limavady	only match: 5 July 2005 Oman v Papua New Guinea		1	[13][14]
John Hunter Grounds	Limavady	only match: 5 July 2005 Scotland		1	[15][16]
Moylena Ground	Antrim	1 July 2005 Denmark v Uganda	4 July 2005 Canada v Oman	2	[17][18]
Newforge	Belfast	only match: 2 July 2005 Namibia v Papua New Guinea		1	[19][20]
Osborne Park	Belfast	1 July 2005 Netherlands v Papua New Guinea	4 July 2005 Namibia v Netherlands	2	[21][22]
The Inch	Dublin	9 July 2005 Denmark v Netherlands	11 July 2005 Oman v United States	2	[23][24]
The Mall	Armagh	only match: 20 July 1999 Denmark v United States		1	[25][26]
Upritchard Park	Bangor	2 July 2005 Scotland	29 June 2008 Ireland v Bangladesh A	4	[27][28]
Wallace Park	Lisburn	only match: 2 July 2005 Bermuda v United Arab Emirates		1	[29][30]

Defunct venues

Women's international venues

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		Women's Test			Women's ODI			Women's T20I
Anglesea Road Cricket Ground	Dublin	–	–	0	27 July 1998 Australia Women	5 August 2016 South Africa Women	5	only match: 27 July 2013 Sri Lanka Women		1	[38][39][40]
Ballymagorry	Strabane	–	–	0	only match: 28 July 2002 India Women		1	–	–	0	[41][42]
Bready Cricket Club Ground	Magheramason	–	–	0	–	–	0	5 September 2016 Bangladesh Women	6 September 2016 Bangladesh Women	2	[43][44]
Carlisle Cricket Club Ground	Dublin	–	–	0	only match: 21 July 1996 New Zealand Women		1	–	–	0	[45][46]
Castle Avenue, Dublin	Dublin	–	–	0	16 August 1990 Ireland Women v England Women	30 June 2018 Pakistan Women	5	28 August 2012 Pakistan Women	29 August 2012 Pakistan Women	3	[47][48][49][n 1]
Civil Service Cricket Club Ground	Belfast	–	–	0	only match: 5 August 1997 South Africa Women		1	–	–	0	[50][51]
Claremont Road Cricket Ground	Dublin	–	–	0	31 July 2005 Australia Women	8 June 2018 New Zealand Women	7	16 July 2014 Pakistan Women	28 June 2018 Bangladesh Women	10	[52][53][54]
College Park	Dublin	only match: 30 July 2000 Pakistan Women		1	1 July 1987 Australia Women	22 July 2004 New Zealand Women	11	–	–	0	[4][55][56]
Kenure	Rush	–	–	0	23 July 2000 Pakistan Women	24 July 2002 India Women	3	only match: 28 June 2008 Ireland Women v West Indies Women		1	[57][58][59]
Observatory Lane	Dublin	–	–	0	17 August 1990 Ireland Women v England Women	17 July 2013 Pakistan Women	6	29 May 2009 Pakistan Women	6 August 2009 Netherlands Women	2	[60][61][62][n 2]
Ormeau Cricket Ground †	Belfast	–	–	0	only match: 28 June 1987 Australia Women		1	–	–	0	[33][63]
Park Avenue	Dublin	–	–	0	18 July 1995 Denmark Women	12 August 2012 Pakistan Women	5	–	–	0	[64][65][n 3]
Shaw's Bridge Lower Ground	Belfast	–	–	0	19 September 2016 Bangladesh Women	10 September 2016 Bangladesh Women	2	–	–	0	[66][67]
Sydney Parade	Dublin	–	–	0	19 July 1995 Netherlands Women	27 July 2000 Pakistan Women	4	only match: 1 July 2018 Bangladesh Women		1	[68][69][70]
The Village	Malahide	–	–	0	3 July 2002 New Zealand Women	9 August 2016 South Africa Women	3	28 May 2009 Pakistan Women	29 June 2018 Bangladesh Women	2	[71][72][73]
The Vineyard	Skerries	–	–	0	30 July 2006 India Women	10 June 2018 New Zealand Women	4	only match: 25 May 2009 Pakistan Women		1	[74][75][76]

Notes

References

External links

• Cricket Ireland Official Website