Sub-villages in Vellalur include Kattasolaipatti, Mandramalaipatti, Melavalasai, Vellanayagampatti, Idayavalasai, Mattangipatti and Edaiyarkovilpatti.

A two-week festival for Elai Kaatha Amman Temple is celebrated yearly starting on the last week of September.

Vellaloor Massacre, 1767, is the killing of nearly 5000 men of the Kallan clan at the Vellalore village near Melur Taluk in Madurai District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The murder of the Indigenous people occurred, as they refused to pay taxes to the East India Company.

After, a while, there was another instance of rebellion by the Kallar, by attacks on the Company peons, which was followed by another massacre by Captain Rumley, resulting in the death of another 2000 people.