[3] Clontarf Cricket Club began operations on a site on Vernon Avenue in 1876.

They moved to a site near the end of Howth Road in 1892, which they started to share with rugby union side Clontarf Football Club.

Clontarf is one of four One Day International (ODI) grounds in Ireland (the others being Stormont in Belfast, Malahide in Dublin and Bready in County Tyrone), hosting its first ODI match on 21 May 1999 as part of the 1999 Cricket World Cup when Bangladesh played the West Indies.

Ireland played their first ODI at that venue in July 2007 against the West Indies as part of a quadrangular series.

[4] In May 2017, the venue hosted its first match between two Full Member teams when Bangladesh played New Zealand in the 2017 Ireland Tri-Nation Series.