[1] The first recorded mention of cricket on the present ground dates from 1868, when Ireland played an All-England Eleven in a non first-class fixture.

[3] Ireland first used the ground for a first-class fixture in 1907 against the touring South Africans.

With the Partition of Ireland in 1922, cricket lost much of its standing in the newly created Republic of Ireland, Dublin University suffered too with the subsequent decline of the sport in the Republic.

A fire occurred at the ground in 1963, destroying a scorebox which had been built in honour of Herbert Rollins.

[7] From 2019, College Park was to become the home ground for Leinster Lightning for the 2019 and 2020 seasons,[8] though this arrangement failed to materialise.