History
Piranpattu is very famous for Gingely oil. It was the major occupation for those people who are from Piranpattu. But this trend changed after the Civil war. Many people started to leave the village. Some people went to Colombo which is the capital of Sri Lanka. There are over 500 families in the village at the moment but there are number of people from the village living in Europe and North America - they have gone abroad because of civil war as well as employment reasons. There are more than thousand of people live in abroad. But still Some people do Gingely oil production. Others are farmers, Government and private sector employees.
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