The ancient seaport of India, Muziris is located in Pattanam village 0.7 km away from this.
During the time of Tippu Sultan's attack Travencoor King created a big fake fort using the Bamboo, Araknut Tree and bitumen.
Tippu's army misleaded and they spend their large time to destroy the fort using howitzer.
The Madaplathuruth lies in the flat delta region of the Periyar river and cut by several canals, which have resulted in the formation of many islands.
The rest of the people were engaged in Khadi cloth manufacturing, handloom and building construction fields.
The same village is famous for its highly skilled manpower in construction, wooden works, sweet sand miners from the river Periyar.
The access for village students to higher educational institutions like engineering, medical, arts, science, TTC, M.edu, ITCs are within a distance of 3 km and are facilitated by widely subsidised transport fares.
The Multisystem operators in Madaplathuruth are Asianet, Kerala Vision, Citi Cable.
Sisters of St Elizabeth run child sponsorship programs in this village, Without considering The religion or cast they are selecting children and they will arrange a sponsor from Italy, Switzerland and other European nations.
[3] The people tend to co-operative and conservative, and the main religions are Hindus, Christians and a few Muslims etc.