The Ulster Cricket Ground in Ballynafeigh Park was a sports venue in

Ballynafeigh Laganbank was one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. Located in the south of the city, the district elected five members to Belfast City Council and contained the wards of Ballynaf ...

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...

. Opened in 1879, it was the home ground of both

Ulster Cricket Club The Ulster Cricket Club was an Irish cricket club based in Ballynafeigh, Belfast. Formed in 1873, it was one of the leading Irish cricket clubs in the Victorian period, but went out of existence in 1931.J. Clarence Hiles (2003). ''A History of S ...

and

Ulster F.C. Ulster Football Club is a defunct Irish association football club that was based in Ballynafeigh, Belfast. History It was initially founded in 1877 as a rugby union, rugby club, but later switched codes to association football. It was subseque ...

During the 1880s, it also hosted several

Irish Cup The Irish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly referred to as the Irish Cup (currently known as the Samuel Gelston's Whiskey Irish Cup for sponsorship purposes) is the primary football knock-out cup competition in Northern Ireland. Ina ...

finals and

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

international games.Scotland - International Matches 1881-1890
/ref> It has also hosted rugby union internationals. The ground is now Ulidia Playing Fields, owned by

Belfast City Council Belfast City Council ( ga, Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste) is the local authority with responsibility for part of the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. The Council serves an estimated population of (), the ...

and used by Rosario Youth Club F.C.

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