land for sale ratnapura

A Land of extent over 26 acres

within the Ellawala-Delgoda families for over 200 years.

• Delgoda Estate is situated in the hamlet of Pallawela, in the Ratnapura Gem district of the Sabaragamuwa province.

• Bounded on one side by the Hangamu Oya, providing river frontage and bisected by two nameless streams, as well as providing a firm boundary to the property.

• At a certain section the Hangamu Oya flows over boulders and rock outcrops and one is subjected to the pleasing sounds of gurgling and murmuring of water flow.

• Delgoda Estate is located on the recently widened eighty-foot Ratnapura-Pallawela-Karawita Highway (B 390), with gentle curves and slopes.

• The beginning of this road is sign boarded as “Pothgul Vihara Road”. Pothgul Vihara is situated on top of a boulder. An endless dark tunnel and a bottomless deep well that is on the boulder are among the amazing things available in this sacred place. Folklore recites that a flower fallen into this well would appear from the well in the land of the world famous “Saman Devale” in Ratnapura.

• Just a couple of Kilometers before reaching the Delgoda Estate, you pass the Elapatha hamlet, bring into mind the perennial favourite song about Elapatha Mudali, a relative of ours.

• Pallawela-Karawita roads leads to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and Sri Lanka’s Bio-Diversity Hot spot the “Sinharaja Forest”.

• Delgoda Estate has access from the highway at 08 Km from Ratnapura and with an additional access to the centre of the land by a concrete paved roadway. A quaint landmark at the beginning of this concrete road is a smithy from the last century where the remarkable feature is a bare-bodied blacksmith hammering a red-hot piece of steel on an anvil.

• The Delgoda estate offers a fantastic view of the Sabaragamuwa blue mountain range, just imagine sitting under a tree, sipping a cool drink and gazing at the blue-green vista round you.

• Ratnakara government school is located on one of the boundaries of the Delgoda Estate, the land for the school’s playground being donated by the Delgoda Family.

• Speaking of the plantation, it consists primarily of well looked after, high yielding rubber trees in tapping as well as young rubber expecting to be tapped for latex in the near future.

• The Land has several interesting nooks and crannies for adventurers’ souls.

• Additionally, five acres have been newly replanted with rubber and three acres with Cinnamon. The first crop of world famous “Ceylon Cinnamon” is being harvested as we speak.

• Despite having a high potential to yield precious stones, the land has never been mined.

• The Delgoda Estate has no encumbrances, and owned singly by me.

• The Price expected for this unencumbered single owner property is 125 million LKR.