[1] Niranam is mentioned in the writings of Pliny and Cosmas Indicopleustes as a trade centre where pepper grows and is known to have a variety of different settlers from Greeks to Aryan Jains.

The railway station is about 8 km from Niranam, in Tiruvalla city, adjacent to the Mallappally Road, near Kuttappuzha RSPO.

Niranam, being an old settlement of both Brahmanic and Christian people, has a composite culture and historical buildings.

Priests From Pattamukkil families used to stay there and done priesthood and governed niranam church and its properties at the ancient days.

As a result of the flood of 1341, the soil of nearby areas of Niranam is still sandy and resembles beaches, though not close to the Arabian sea.