Sawyerpuram is a town panchayat in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Microliths are found in large in numbers around Sawyerpuram (and additionally in Kulattur, Tirunelveli).

These available evidences in Sawyerpuram point the chronology of the microlithic culture in South India to circa 4000 B.C.

[1][2] Since the missionary Dr. G. U. Pope ministered in this place, the population is predominantly Christian.

This small town is also known for the cultivation of bananas and rice because of its red soil and jack fruit, star fruit, jambul fruit, pea nut, cucumber are also cultivated in few places around the town.