Historically, Palayamkottai served as the locale of an ancient fort that was employed for the administration of neighbouring districts.

Regular monsoon rains coupled with the Thamirabarani water sustain the primarily agrarian villages around the city.

[4] A popular mosque in the city is located on the old Police Hospital road, with hundreds of Islamic followers chanting their prayers regularly.

The little city also has a Government Museum with a huge and realistic fibreglass Tyrannosaurus rex which is popular among the young people of Palayamkottai.

The museum houses a small collection of ancient artifacts found in the areas surrounding the city.

[citation needed] Palayamkottai also has one of the most popular Science Centres in South India, a satellite unit of Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore.

It is a common hangout area for young people, and is frequently visited by teams of school students to explore and learn the principles of science through the centre's interesting outdoor equipment and experiments.

Sister Delphine was popularly called the Teresa of Tirunelveli by all the people who knew her, because she had served this society since a time when it did not have any electricity.

[citation needed] CSI Bell Pins Mission Hospital and the recently renovated CSI Jeyaraj Annapackiam Hospital in Palayamkottai provide free and reduced cost medical services to the local community.

The Tirunelveli Medical college Hospital - a tertiary referral center, located in the High Grounds provides free services to poor people.

The produce is very fresh and very cheap, and the market is usually very crowded in the morning with eager housewives exercising their haggling skills with the illiterate farmers.

Now, with the ruling party DMK back in power, (which originally introduced the concept) the Ulavar Santhai is maintained well and is a grocery market for the locals.

Share-autos (autorickshaws that car-pool paying customers on a common route) ply extensively along Palayamkottai's streets and are easy to flag down.

The regular yellow-black Greaves Garuda autorickshaws, although plenty in number, are considered to be the common man's taxis of Palayamkottai.

As a common practise, people of Palayamkottai or Tirunelveli do not use taxis as an alternate public transportation to buses or trains.

It is named after Ms.Sarah Tucker, a physically challenged lady confined to her room in England, who was moved by the reports of the appalling condition of the women in this region due to their illiteracy.

State Level Hockey tournaments sponsored by Bell Pins are held in VOC grounds annually.

A park and an indoor stadium has been built here in this ground, in order to cover the small children and youngsters.

The Anna Stadium holds field hockey and Kabbadi matches at both district and state level.

The stadium has an excellent professional German Hockey Turf, which trains a lot of young and energetic teams and Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT) has recently released tenders for installation of synthetic athletic track in it.