This is a list of Archaeological Protected Monuments in Kandy District, Sri Lanka.[1]
Monument | Image | Location | Grama Niladhari Division | Divisional Secretary's Division | Registered | Description | Refs |
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Alawatugoda | Devale Premises, its buildings and other archaeological remains situated within the limits | ||||||
Alugalgelena Cave | Kaikawala | Pre-historic cave | [2] | ||||
Aluthgama Nagahamula Hena (Pansal Watte) | Aluthgama Lower | Drip-ledged rock cave | |||||
No. 228-Wattapuluwa | Buddhist shrine | ||||||
Kahawatte | Kahawatte | Inscriptions and drip-ledged rock cave | |||||
Kandy city limits | Buddha shrine | [3] | |||||
Attaragama | Cave temple with paintings | [4] | |||||
Badagalla Gale Vihara | Badagalla | Buddhist shrine; flight of steps on the rock, on which the chaitiya is located; and olinda poruwa | |||||
Balana Kumarakande Devalaya | No. 202, Ketakumbura | Drip-ledged caves | |||||
Wewagama | Cave temple with paintings | [5] | |||||
Bodhirukhkharama Vihara | Siwurupitiya | Tempita vihara | |||||
Bodhirukhakharama Vihara | Meeyanpaha | Hakmana | Vishnu Devala within the premises | ||||
Watagalatenna | Watagalatenna | Devalaya located in the territory of the Devramvehera Meditation Centre in Devalatenna | |||||
Bogambara Police Officers Quarters | Deiyannewela | Government building | |||||
No. 483-Bohotta | |||||||
Botota | Buddha shrine | ||||||
Bulathwaththa Walawwa | Udugoda | Udugoda | Atuwa (barn) | ||||
Butawatta Damma discourse hall | Butawatta South | ||||||
Buwalikada court building | Buwalikada | Buwalikada | Four buildings located by north and court building | ||||
Idamegama | Image house | ||||||
Dalukgolla | No. 270 Ampitiya Udagama | Image house and Sangawasaya (Dwelling house) | |||||
Dambarawa Devalaya | Dambarawa | [6] | |||||
Dankumbura | Dwelling house and Tampita Image house | ||||||
Danture | [7] | ||||||
Dawlagala ambalama | Dawlagala | Ambalama | [8] | ||||
Kadugannawa | |||||||
Dedunupitiya | Damunupola | Len Vihara | |||||
Amunugama | Image house with paintings | ||||||
Amunugama | No. 633, Sirimalwatta, Pallegama | Pohaya Geya, Sangawasa (dwelling house) and wall surrounding Bodhi Tree | |||||
Dehigashinna | Pothdalgoda | Drip-ledged cave and stone plight of steps | |||||
Dehideniya | Image house | ||||||
Dehipagoda East | Two image houses, Dagoba and two moonstones | ||||||
Deldeniya | Chaitya | ||||||
No. 362-Kadugannawa | Dhamma discourse hall and Bhikku dwelling | ||||||
Muruthalawa | Lower Dodamwela | Buddhist shrine | |||||
Dodanwala | [9] | ||||||
Doolwela Manapadassana cave complex | Udadoolwela | Drip-ledged caves in the Doolwela Manapadassana cave complex, together with Brahmi rock inscriptions | |||||
Doragamuwa | Tampita Viharaya (Viharaya built on stone piles) with a two storeyed Dhammasala, Sanghavasa with a centre courtyard, flight of steps carved on the rock leaving the chaitya and pillar foundation | ||||||
Bell tower and two flights of steps on the original rock, cave temple with drip-Ledged | |||||||
Kandy Municipal office building, Sri Dalada Thapovana street | |||||||
Walawwa, Raja Veediya | |||||||
Embekka Devalaya | Embekke | Embekke Dewale together with the building complex of the same era, Gale Ambalama | |||||
Two-storey hotel, No 21 Temple Street | |||||||
Gadaladeniya | Vihara, Devalaya and rock inscription | [10] | |||||
Galagedera Delgasyaya drip-ledged rock cave (Bagawalena) | Maussawa | ||||||
Tittapajjala | Image house | ||||||
Galkotuwa ruins | Galkotuwa | Drip-ledged cave | |||||
Gallengolla Potgul Vihara | Gallengolla | Urulewatta | Drip-ledged caves, three-storey Image house, Chaitya, Dhamma Sala and flight of steps | ||||
Nattaranpotha | [11] | ||||||
Bothalapitiya | Henakantha Biso Bandara Sohona | ||||||
No. 133-Gannoruwa | Buddhist shrine and chaitya | ||||||
Giddawa | Buddhist shrine, Dharmasala and two Chaityas in the premises | ||||||
Walawwa, cnr Yatinuwara Veediya and Sir Bennet Soysa Veediya | |||||||
No. 180 | |||||||
Godamune Walawwa | Udagama | [12] | |||||
Gunadaha ruins | Gunadaha | Gunadaha | Drip-ledged cave on land called Kataram Kumbure Pillewa | ||||
Udawela Udagama East | Image house and Awasage | ||||||
Heeloya | Shrine | ||||||
Alawathugirigama | Image house with paintings and images | ||||||
No. 267, Hindagala | Drip-ledged cave temple, two drip-ledged caves and rock inscriptions | ||||||
Idame Walawwa | Rambukwella | House known as Idamewalawwa alias “Hakmana Niwasa” | |||||
Kadawara Devala | Gabbala | Gabbala | |||||
Gampola town | Gampola | ||||||
Kaikawala Mul Gedara | Kaikawala | At Kumbure Gedara land premises | |||||
No. 334 Kaloyuwawa | Tampita Vihara and dwelling house | ||||||
Muruddeniya | Tempita vihara | ||||||
Kande Walawwa | Kandagammedda | Kandagammedda | |||||
Kandy Charity compilation society building | Yatinuwara Veediya | ||||||
Anglican Church, Yatinuwara Veediya | |||||||
Kandy Development Corporation building bearing assessment no 5 | Deva Veediya | ||||||
Kandy Laksala building | Deva Veediya | ||||||
Methodist Church, Yatinuwara Veediya | |||||||
Prince of Wales fountain | A fountain at the junction of Temple Street and Deva Veediya, erected by the Coffee Planters of Ceylon to commemorate the visit of HRH Prince of Wales to Kandy in 1875 | ||||||
Sri Dalada Thapovana street | |||||||
Kandy president house's trust home | Sri Dalada Thapovana street | ||||||
Karagala Devalaya | Wathupola | Drip-ledged cave with Karagala Devala building and drip-ledged cave situated in Devale Diggala rock | |||||
Kotaligoda | Buddhist shrine | ||||||
Kandy city limits | |||||||
Kataragama Devalaya, Wallabagoda | Wallabagoda | No. 1068 Wallabagoda | Buildings and other archaeological remains situated within the limits | ||||
Katarangala cave | Dakwariwaththa Aluth kotasa | Randiwela | Katarangala cave and drip-ledged cave situated at surrounding area | ||||
Buddhist shrine | |||||||
Katugoda, Diganakelewatta ruins | No. 789 | Three drip-ledged caves and Kethukavata, Thrisula Markin on land called Katugoda, Diganakelewatta in the Poddalgoda Village | |||||
Kevulgama Ambalama | Hunnasgiriya | Kevulgama | |||||
Pamunetenna | Drip-ledged rock cave with Kinikandura Temple on land called Dewale Langa Hena | ||||||
Kobbekaduwa | Buddhist shrine and drip-ledged rock cave | ||||||
Kondadeniya | Image house with paintings and sculptures | ||||||
No. 498 Molagoda | Cave temple, cave inscription, water drain and the feet washing stone carved in the stone inside the drip-ledged cave | ||||||
Kumburegama Udaha Wallawa | Kumburegama | Buildings and Atuge | |||||
Kurukohogama | Shrine | ||||||
Hiyarapitiya | Vihara, Devalaya and natural rock with inscription | [13] | |||||
Hiyarapitiya | Vahalkada | [14] | |||||
Madawala inscription | Madawala | Inscription on the mountain range in land called Akuraketugalewatta | |||||
Madugalle Walawwa | Udispaththuwa | Nilgala | |||||
No. 254, Malwatta | Pohoya Geya with Image house | ||||||
Medagammedda Sekkuwa | Medagammedda | Senarathwela | Sekkuwa | ||||
Medawela | Tampita Viharaya (Viharaya built on stone piles) Pohoya Geya, Slab Inscription, hill inscription, Wahalkada, Dagoba and Buddha statue inside the new image house | ||||||
Meemure Walawwa | Upper and lower walawwas and stone walls | [15] | |||||
Minigomuwa | Tempita vihara | ||||||
Muladeni Mandiraya | No. 357, Kandy | Deva veediya | |||||
Udagama | Image house with paintings | [16] | |||||
Malwatta | Image house | ||||||
Natha Devale, Kandy | |||||||
Natha Devalaya, Vegiriya | Vegiriya | Devalaya, rock with inscription and cave | [17] | ||||
National Insurance Corporation building bearing assessment no 24 | Kande street | ||||||
Kurukude | Stone door frame and curved rocks | ||||||
Official residence building bearing assessment no 73 of Kandy District Secretariat | Raja Veediya | ||||||
Padurugalpoththa | No. 1159 Megoda Kalugamuwa | Inscription with characters from the Kandyan period in the rock surface | |||||
Palkumbura | Gedige image house | ||||||
Galahetiyawa | Tittawela | Rock with sun, moon symbols, old inscriptions and archaeological evidences | |||||
Panabokke Walawwa | Elpitiya | Walawwa and Atugeya | |||||
Panabokke Walawwa | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Paranagam Walawwa | Paranagama | ||||||
Pasgama Sri Nata Devalaya | Pasgama | East Hewawissa | Devale Premises and its buildings and other archaeological remains, the street and throne hall situated within the premises | ||||
Pattini Devale, Kandy | |||||||
Pattiyawatta Rajapihilla | Pattiyawatta | ||||||
Mawathupola | No. 580 | Dhamma discourse hall | |||||
Pitiyagedara | Image house with paintings | ||||||
Pittawela Ambalama | Pahala Pittawela | ||||||
Pahala Pittawela | Buddhist shrine, Dhamma discourse hall and stupa | ||||||
Pothdalgoda | Shrine | ||||||
Pothdalgoda ruins | Pothdalgoda | Pothdalgoda | Stone inscription and Chaitya in Ganepitiya land | ||||
Pothgul Vihara | Image house and Stupa | ||||||
No 127 D S Senanayake Veediya | |||||||
Rajaphilla and connected archaeological remains | Rajapihilla Mawatha | ||||||
Yatiwawala | Image house | ||||||
Rambukwella | Rambukwella | ||||||
Natural Cave and cave dwelling house | |||||||
Weliwita, Ihalagama | Tempita vihara | ||||||
Sath Paththini Devala | Madeniyawaka | Madeniyawaka | Building of Udagama Sath Paththini Devala and Stone with the signs of sun and moon found closeby | ||||
Senarath Palace ruins | Meda Maha Nuwara | In Nuwarawatta land premises | [18] | ||||
Sendeniya Raja Maha Vihara | No. 9 - Sendeniya West | Buddhist shrine and restricted Bhikku activity hall | |||||
Senkanda cave | [19] | ||||||
Sinhapitiya Malathimala Rock | No. 1018-Sinhapitiya South | Restricted Bhikku activity hall | |||||
Sirimalwatte Abeykoon Walawwa | Sirimalwatte-West | Pre-historic stone implements and the rock with other archaeological remains | |||||
Sirimalwatta Ambalama | Sirimalwaththa West | ||||||
Sooriyagoda | [20] | ||||||
Weligodapola | Tempita vihara | ||||||
No. 319 Kannadeniya | Image house with paintings painted only on outside of wall | ||||||
Batagalla North | Two-storey image house with old paintings | ||||||
Sri Kataragama Devalaya | Ganegoda | No. 1159 Ganegoda | Devale Premises and building thereof and other archaeological remains, the street and the throne hall | ||||
Kobbegala | Kobbegala | Cave image house with drip-ledges | |||||
Vegolla | Weliwita, Pahalagama | Delling house and image house | |||||
Sri Uposatharama Vihara | karalliyadda | karalliyadda | Stone door and plight of steps of shrine | ||||
Galiyawa | Poholiyedda | Image House with paintings and sculptures | |||||
State Osusala building bearing assessment no 2 | Kotugodella street | ||||||
St. Anthony's Church, Kandy | Catholic Cathedral, E. L. Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
St. Anthony's Church hall | Preaching Hall, adjacent to St. Anthony's Church | ||||||
Anglican Church, Deva Veediya | |||||||
Suduhumpola | Image house | ||||||
Thalwatta | Image house | ||||||
Bakery building bearing assessment no 34 | Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy | ||||||
Baptist Church building | Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 2 | Cross street | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 3 | Raja Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 5 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 9 | Kande street | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 12, 14, 16, 20 | Sri Dalada Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 17 | Kande street | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 17 to 33 | Deva veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 22 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 26, 28, 30, 32 | Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 28 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 32 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 33 | Kotugodella street | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 34 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 34, 38, 40, 42, 44 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 41, 43, 45 | Deva veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 42 | Kande street | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 44, 46 | Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 46 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 49 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 51 | Kotugodella street | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 51, 53 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 66 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 80 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 84, 86 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 85, 87, 89, 91 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 88 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 90, 92 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 93, 95, 97 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 94, 96 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 96 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 99, 101 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 103 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 104 | Yatinuwara Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 105, 107, 109 | D S Senanayake veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 108, 110 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 111 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 111, 113, 115 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 112, 114 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 114, 116, 120 | Yatinuwara Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 120 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 120, 122, 124, 126, 128 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 138 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 138 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 142 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 142, 144, 146, 148 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 150 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 150, 152, 152/1 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 154 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, 184 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 184 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 192, 192 B | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 198, 200 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 202 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 204, 206 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 208 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 209 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 215, 217 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 225 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 227 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 227 | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 265, 267 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 292, 294, 296 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Building bearing assessment no 337 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Cargills building | 3 Sri Dalada Veediya (Ward Street), Kandy | ||||||
Church building in Girls' High School premises | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Devon Food Court building bearing assessment no 1 | No. 11, Sri Dalada Veediya | ||||||
Hatton National Bank building bearing assessment no 1 | Sri Dalada Veediya | ||||||
House bearing assessment no 114 | Kotugodella street | ||||||
House bearing assessment no 322 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
House bearing assessment no 346 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
House bearing assessment no 356, 358 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
House bearing assessment no 409 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
House bearing assessment no 457, 459 | Peradeniya road | ||||||
Kodithuwakku Arachchi building | Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy | ||||||
Lawyers office building bearing assessment no 6 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Former Bank of Ceylon building | No. 22 Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy | ||||||
Building at Asoka College, Kandy | D S Senanayake Veediya | ||||||
Building, which belonged to St. Sylvester's College | Yatinuwara Veediya | ||||||
Salvation Army building, bearing assessment no 26 | Colombo Veediya | ||||||
Second Volunteer Sinha Regiment headquarters building | Raja Veediya | ||||||
Second Volunteer Sinha Regiment officials residence, Kandy | Yatinuwara Veediya | ||||||
Tittawela | Bhikku rest house | ||||||
Udaaludeniya | Wooden door frame, inscriptions and moonstone | [21] | |||||
Udarathmeewala | Drip-ledged cave | ||||||
Udawela | Udawela | Shrine | |||||
Udispattuwa | A Buddha shrine and Dhamma Sermon Hall | ||||||
Uduwawala | No. 418, Uduwawala North | Harispattuwa | |||||
Uduwawala West | Dwelling house | ||||||
Uduwawala | Image house with paintings | [22] | |||||
No. 1121-Unambuwa | Tampita Buddhist shrine | ||||||
Upper Kattukale Tourist Police Quarters | No. 258, Upper Katukale | ||||||
Uralawatta | Stone staircase and Chaitya with drip-ledged cave/vihara situated in Sathpaththini Devala and Vihara premises | ||||||
Veheragla Chaitya | No. 615, Udathalawinna | ||||||
Waththegama | Waththegama | Two-storey building | |||||
Vishnu Devale, Kandy | |||||||
Walawaththa Walawwa | Walawaththa | Randeniya | Well and Pihilla on the land | ||||
No. 1067 Herakola | Chaithyaghara, Chaitya and stone inscription | ||||||
Waradiwela | Shrine | ||||||
Warathenna stone well | Warathenna | No. 439, Warathenna | Stone well (sluice) | ||||
Wathupola Ambalama | Wathupola | ||||||
Wattapola Dhamma discourse hall | No. 121 - Wattapola | ||||||
Wattaranthanna | Image house and drip-ledged cave | ||||||
Wattegama Maliyadeva Purana Cave Temple | Ihala Yatawara | Drip-ledged cave | |||||
Weheragala Raja maha Vihara | Galabewa | Drip-ledged rock cave, rock cave vihara, rock inscriptions and rock engraved with steps | |||||
Welagama | Len Vihara, dwelling house, stone inscription with 1843 mark and 3 caves with drip ledges | ||||||
Weliwita Pahalagama ruins | Eramuduliyadda | Drip-ledged cave on the land called Rathnehegedara Hitinawaththa, Ketala, Weliwita Pahalagama, Hatharaliyadda | |||||
udagammedda | udagammedda | Shrine and other archaeological evidences within the premises | |||||
Wewatenne Dhamma discourse hall | Wewatenne | ||||||
Pililladeniya | Pre-historic stone implements and the rock with other archaeological remains | ||||||