Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Kal Munai Old Survey Tower

Kal Munai Old Survey Tower
Kal Munai Old Survey Tower (Photo credit: Tharindu Ranasinghe, Google street view)

Kal Munai Old Survey Tower is a colonial period survey tower located in Kilinochchi District, Sri Lanka. 

The tower which is square in shape has been built with cubic shape cut limestone rocks. At the bottom of the tower, an arch shaped passage can be seen.  The tower is getting smaller as it rises from the bottom to the top.

A protected monument
The old survey post belonging to Kalmunei village situated in Grama Niladhari Division No. KN 68, Kavutharimunei in the Divisional Secretary’s Division, Poonaryn is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government Gazette notification published on 24 March 2016.

References
1) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. No: 1960. 24 March 2016. p.229.

Location Map

This page was last updated on 19 March 2022
For a complete tourist map follow this link: Lankapradeepa Tourist Map

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