[1] The R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium is located in this area on Khettarama Road.

King Rajasinha I of Sitawaka ordered a deep ditch to be dug, thereby draining the eastern approaches.

In May 1587, Rajasinha I of Sitawaka, having conquered the Kandyan Kingdom, laid siege to the Portuguese fort of Colombo, with 60,000 men, 150 guns, 11,600 muskets and firelocks and 120 war elephants.

Under the Portuguese, the city walls encompassed the Pettah, and the Beira Lake was much bigger than it is now.

Rajasinha I of Sitawaka ordered a deep ditch to be dug, thereby draining the eastern approaches.