TOWARDS OUR PLACES – Mugaavil

Mugaavil is a beautiful village in the Pachchilaipalli area of the Kilinochchi district in the north of Eelam. It is an ancient village and the people of the Pachchilaipalli meant to have lived in Mugaavil. Mugaavil meant in front of the camp. It said in there was and the place in front of the camp was called Mugaavil.

It said that the name Mugaavil was a name given by the Portuguese. There is evidence of a two-way trade through the port at the market in Cholar period. The village is associated with the most ancient villages of Puloli, Muhamalai and Iyakachchi.

The Thirikai Amman Temple is a very old and special spiritual place. Here is also Salliyadi Pillaiyar Temple, Mugaavil Murugan Temple, Parangikkadu Vairavar Temple, Ladchuna Vairavar Temple, Vaalaithodda Amman Temple.

The village was and still is an agricultural village. The village is rich in water resources. Mugaavil has over forty acres of field land, over twenty acres of rice mark and over two hundred and fifty acres of coconut plantations.

Thirikai Amman Kovil Pond, Periya Mugaavil Pond, Mugaavil Pond, Yaavil Pond and Parayan Pond is the ponds in Mugaavil with water to the village. Our ancestors has used their geographical knowledge and economic knowledge here in this village, the evident shows. Cells and airstrikes were attacking the coconut plantations during the war. The resettled people have re-cultivated coconut plantations and made their village prosperous again.

This village had made many sacrifices and heroic deeds during the war and played an important role in the history of Eelam war.