This is a list of Archaeological Protected Monuments in Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka.[1]
| Monument | Image | Location | Grama Niladhari Division | Divisional Secretary's Division | Registered | Description | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panawenna | Kapuhenthota | Image house with paintings, sculpture and rampart | |||||
| Ambagahawehera Mankada tope | No. 219 of the Ambagahawehera Mankada | Galpaya | The old tope | ||||
| Ambanoluwa Raja Maha Vihara | No. 136D, Moragala | Drip-ledged cave temple | |||||
| Ammamuwa Kataragama Devalaya and Pattini Devalaya | Rampart and throne | [2] | |||||
| Ganegama | [3] | ||||||
| Aththalawatta Purana Vihara | Aththalawatta | Buddhist shrine | |||||
| Aththarama Purana Vihara (Kolonne purana vihara) | Kolonna | Buddha image | |||||
| Balawinna Purana Gangarama Vihara | Balawinna West | Shrine with frescoes and sculptures | |||||
| Batatotalena Cave | Batatota | ||||||
| Beligallena cave | Beligallenagama | Pre-Historic cave | |||||
| Bisokotuwa lake | Galpaya | Galpaya | The bisocotuva lake with the stone sluice, bisocotuwa, ralapana retaining wall, the lake retaining wall | ||||
| Cemetery of Maduwanwala family | Dedarangamuwa | Maduwanwala | |||||
| Kolonna | No 210 Dapane | Tampita vihara | |||||
| Dehigaskanda Mineral mine | Komarika | Miriswelpotha | |||||
| Delgamuwa Raja Maha Vihara | Delgamuwa | Kurahan grinding stone, used to hide tooth relic of Buddha, shrine and library | |||||
| Devipahala Na Tree | Devipahala (GND No. 160A) | The historical Na Tree at Devipahala | |||||
| Weralupe | |||||||
| Dickwelegoda dagoda | Dickwelegoda | Maduwanwala | |||||
| Ganelandagama | Diyavinna | Cave temple and two caves with drip-ledges in the premises | |||||
| Ehelepola Walawwa | Ratnapura town | [4] | |||||
| Ellawala Sri Gangarama Purana Vihara | No. 147B Deheragoda | Old Image House | |||||
| Elugala Purana Tempita Vihara | Kanathiriyanwela | Tempita Vihara | |||||
| Ekneligoda Walawwa | Eknaligoda | [5] | |||||
| Eknaligoda | Boundary wall bounded by Kuruvita-Erattna Highway, located in Ekneligoda Walawwa | ||||||
| Gangodagama, Palledenigoda | Cave with Buddha statue, rock with inscriptions | ||||||
| Gallengoda Raja Maha Vihara | Maragala | ||||||
| Pelmadulla | Image house with paintings | ||||||
| Thiruwanakatiya | Thiruwanakatiya | Buddhist shrine with sculpture and frescoes | |||||
| Gulana Cave | No. 194, Pimbura | Cave situated in the land called Pimbura Veragamwatta | |||||
| Gurubalkada Bandara Cemetery | Eknaligoda | The Cemetery bounded in North-east by the land owned by the villages and reservation for the water tank of the town, South-East by reservation for the water tank of the town, South-East by reservation for the water tank and where the public cemetery is situated and South-West by the land inherited by Late J. K. Punchiappuhami, North-West by Kuruvita-erattna Highway | |||||
| Halmillaketiya Tope | Halmillaketiya | ||||||
| No 208 Kamburugamuwa | Vihara Mandira | ||||||
| Hargala ruins | Kewelagala | The drip-ledged cave with brahmi inscriptions located in the mountain range adjoining the mountain range known as Hargala | |||||
| Hituwala Galge | Boltumbe-Sisiltonwatta | ||||||
| Iddamalgoda Walawwa (Warigama Walawwa) | Battamgoda | Tomb at Girawatte and Bodhi tree | [6] | ||||
| Ihalagalagama Gallen Raja Maha Vihara | Viharawela | Len vihara and two stupas | |||||
| Kande Viharagama | Cave temple with drip-ledged caves and paintings and sculptures | ||||||
| Kavantissa Raja Maha Vihara | Pallegama | Stupa | |||||
| Kekula Kabara rock cave | Kekula | ||||||
| Sannasgama | Sannasgama | The front wall with the Makara Thorana in the Image House | |||||
| Kottimbulwala | Cave temple | [7] | |||||
| Kottimbulwala | The old hermitage in the premises of the cavern Rajamaha Vihara | ||||||
| Kukuluwa Vihara | Batatota | Pre-Historic cave in the Vihara premises | |||||
| Kuruvita Purana Vihara (Abhayathilakarathnaramaya) | Stupa, Preaching hall, image house and paintings | ||||||
| Lanka Pabbatha Gallen Raja Maha Vihara | Walipathyaaya | No. 260/B Walipathyaaya | All the drip-ledged caverns with stone inscriptions in the premises | ||||
| Belimaliyedda | |||||||
| Madarasinharama Vihara | Kandangamuwa | No. 136-A, Kandangamuwa | Buddhist shrine with paintings | ||||
| Maduwanwela Walawwa | Maduwanwela | [8] | |||||
| Mahara Purana Vihara | No. 126, Mahara | Image house | |||||
| Maha Saman Devalaya | Dewalegama | [9] | |||||
| Dewalegama | The Alapatha Walawwe or official residence of the Basnayake Nilame and Buddhist shrine with paintings and sculptures of the Ratnapura Maha saman Dewala premises | ||||||
| Makandura Maha Walawwa | Makandura | Makandura | Bodhi Tree Terrace | ||||
| Makandura | Image House with paintings and sculptures, Awasageya and boundary wall | ||||||
| Manellena Cave | Batatota | Pre-Historic cave | |||||
| Medabedda - Pallekanda Yaya ruins | Uggalkaltota Left bankLeft (GND No. 259) | Stupa | |||||
| Meegahagoda | Image house with paintings | ||||||
| National gem and jewellery authority building | |||||||
| Nedun Raja Maha Vihara | Kiriella | Buddhist shrine | |||||
| Nerawanalena Cave at Sri Sumana Gallen Vihara | Kukulegama | ||||||
| Pidaliganawa-Niyadagala | |||||||
| Niyangama Udaha Walawwa | Niyangama (GND No. 236) | The pre-historic tomb located in the territory | |||||
| Omalpe Tempita Vihara | Omalpe | ||||||
| Pothgul Raja Maha Len Vihara | Karangoda | Two Len Vihara with paintings | |||||
| Puskada cave | Mahawalatenna | ||||||
| Ratnapura DIG office building | Two storied building at old fort premises | ||||||
| Ratnapura district court official residence | Ratnapura | ||||||
| [10] | |||||||
| Two Thorana | |||||||
| Ratnapura guest house | Ratnapura | ||||||
| Ratnapura library building | At old fort premises | ||||||
| Ratnapura Portuguese fort | [11] | ||||||
| Ratnapura regional survey office building | |||||||
| Ratnapura SP office building | Two storied building at fort premises | ||||||
| Ratnapura SSP office building | At old fort premises | ||||||
| Ratnapura Traffic Police office building | At old fort premises | ||||||
| Saman Devalaya, Boltumbe | Boltumbe | ||||||
| Sankhapala Raja Maha Vihara | Pallebedda | Tomb of Pussadewa, the cave with drip ledges and other 15 caves | |||||
| Mahawalathenna | Mahawalathenna | Image House and Hewisimandapa | |||||
| Sri Mahinda Raja Maha Vihara | Godakawela | Image house with paintings | |||||
| Sri Rankoth Raja Maha Vihara | Gilimale | Image house with paintings and sculptures, Buddhist shrine | |||||
| Pelmadulla town | The Bhikku dwelling, the alms giving hall and the Dhamma discourse hall | ||||||
| Sri Suwisuddharama Purana Vihara | Amitiyagoda | Amitiyagoda | Buddhist shrine | ||||
| Sri Thaalarukkaaraama Vihara | Mullendiyaawala | Mullendiyaawala | The old tope on the land Pin Haena | ||||
| St. Aloysius National school building | Ratnapura | Two-storey building belonging to St. Aloysius National School | |||||
| St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church | Kanathiriyanwela | Church building | |||||
| Ratnapura | Church building | ||||||
| Sudharmodaya Raja Maha Vihara | Image house | [12] | |||||
| Sugatharama Vihara | Atawakwela | Image house with Makarathorana and wall paintings | |||||
| The building bearing assessment number 1/1 | Rathnapura Town | In Frank Hettiarachchi mawatha | |||||
| The building bearing assessment number 4 | Rathnapura Town West | In Ratnapura Bandaranayake Mawatha | |||||
| The building bearing assessment number 58/1 | Rathnapura Town | In Dutch fort premises | |||||
| Tomb of Iddamalgoda Basnayake Nilame | Pelmadulla | The tomb at Girawatte land and Bodhi tree | [13] | ||||
| Udagama stupa | Udagama | ||||||
| Uggal Aluthnuwara Kataragama Devalaya | Aluthnuwara | ||||||
| Veherabindayaya ruins | Biso Kotuwa | Galpaya | Dagoba in ruins, building complex and premises with surrounding stone wall | ||||
| Atakalampanna Ambalanwatta | Dwelling house and the preaching hall | ||||||
| Walalgoda Purana Tempita Vihara | Walalgoda | Tempita Vihara | |||||
| Waldehi Katuwa Akuru Ketugala inscriptions | Kelambugaha Athura | Galpaya | The inscriptions | ||||
| Waldehikotuwa Bodhighara | No. 219/B in the Galpaya-Bisokotuwa | Galpaya | |||||
| Konegasmankada | Cave with dripledges with Brahmee characters (Vidharshana cave temple) | ||||||
| Wanawasa Pansala or Jayasumanarama Moola Maha Vihara | Thiruwanakatiya | Two-storey Dhamma discourse hall | |||||
| Wawlugala mountain | Alupatgala | Weragana | Cave and hilltop containing pre-historic features | ||||
| Weheragodaella ruins | Rambukanagama D/3 cannel | Halmillaketiya | Stupa | ||||
| Wehera Sindayaya ruins | Kanathiriyanwela | Kanathiriyanwela | Stone pathway, parapet and dagoba ruins | ||||
| Wijeyaratne Amitiyagoda Walauwa | Amitiyagoda | Amitiyagoda (No. 233B) | Bodhi tree terrace | ||||