SHORT COMMUNICATION: ATAPATTU WALAWWA EDITED BY JANAKA GOONETILEKE BY HEMANTHA SITUGE ATTORNEY AT LAW

SHORT COMMUNICATION : ATAPATTU WALAWWA JANAKA GOONETILEKE BY HEMANTHA SITUGE

1]According to the Arnold Wright's Twentieth Century Impressions[ vide at page 955]  states that this Walauwa is built by the grandfather of Mudliyar E R Gooneratne erected at the end of 18th century

2]Out of the four photographs two of them depicts the fascade of the manor house.This is perhaps the oldest photograph in existence which not reproduced by the contributors

3]Mudliyar Don David de Alvis's tombstone is not referred by J P Lewis's work cited by me.

4]The sketches/ photographs the of Dias Abeysinghe orphanage DOORNBERG 1712 vide pages 190-3
 .the Architechture  of an Island Ronald Lewcock , Barbara Sansoniand Laki Senanayake 2010

5]at page 206 an interior sketch on the Atapattu Walauwa


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