Piranpattu

Piranpattu (Tamil: பிரான்பற்று) is a village in the northern Jaffna District, Sri Lanka.

The origin of the term Pirampaththai stems from an abundance of Piraya trees 50 years ago in the village.

So, people name the town with the name of Piraya tree combined with Patthai, a type of grass.

There are over 500 families in the village at the moment but there are number of people from the village living in Europe and North America - they have gone abroad because of civil war as well as employment reasons.

There are two health care centres (hospitals)in the Village: one is Piranpattu Primary Health Care Centre and the other one is Piranpattu Ayurveda Hospital.

If any emergency problem people directly go to Jaffna Main Hospital.

Piranpattu Rural Development Organization has introduced some technical courses for the village people free of charge: computer training, sweep, wiring etc.

There are many people unable to pay for their job oriented courses like as mentioned earlier.

There is a free nursery called Sri Murugan Mun Palli.

The Village Has Engineers, Doctors, teachers and other important positions of people.

Youth always like to Play Cricket, Football and Kilithaddu (Which is one of the Tamils traditional sports)