Just before Keerimalai spring is the 6th-century-BC Naguleswaram Shiva Kovil, one the pancha ishwaram , five temples dedicated to Lord Shiva in Sri Lanka. Before the civil war, this was a thriving Hindu pilgrimage site with several temples and six madham (rest homes for pilgrims) and samadhi shrines for holy men. Only traces of the original buildings survived, and the temple was bombed by the army in 1990.
