Kal Munai Old Survey Tower
Kal Munai Old Survey Tower (Photo credit: Tharindu Ranasinghe, Google street view) Kal Munai Old Survey Tower (Sinhala: කල්මුනායි පැරණි මිනුම් කුළුණ) is a colonial-era survey tower located in Kilinochchi District, Sri Lanka. History The Department of Survey of Sri Lanka (or the Department of the Surveyor General) which is the oldest unchanged government department in the country, was established by the British on 2 August 1800 (Vithana, 2006). Under the Surveyor General W. D. Gosset (1855-1858), the establishment of control for surveys on the island commenced with the base measurements in 1857 for Principal Triangulation and several survey towers were used across the country for this process (Dias et al., 2016). The tower at Kal Munai is said to be one of the survey towers built by the British. The tower 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…
