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Kirilapone, Colombo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Kirilapone, also written Kirulapone, is a suburb of Colombo in Sri Lanka, known equally by its postal designation of Colombo 5.
About Kirilapone
Where to stay in Kirilapone
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Havelock Park sets the pace here. Kirilapone lies out among the residential streets of Colombo rather than in its commercial core, so a room here trades walking access to offices for green space, quiet and a straightforward run into town. Postal addresses read Colombo 5. St. Lawrence's Church gives the suburb its one historic fixture, and the park supplies the rest of what a stay here is built around.
About Kirilapone
What are the main landmarks in Kirilapone?
Two sites carry the suburb. Havelock Park is the green space Kirilapone is known by, a stretch of open ground in a part of Colombo that otherwise runs to houses and small shopfronts. St. Lawrence's Church is the other.
Nothing else is listed for Kirulapone, and a visitor working through the suburb finds a park, a church and the ordinary business of Colombo 5.
What is the history of Kirilapone?
Three spellings attach to one suburb. Kirilapone, Kirulapone and Kirulapana all name the same ground in Colombo, and Colombo 5 is the postal designation the place also answers to. The sources give no origin date.
What they do record is small: a suburb inside Colombo that holds Havelock Park and St. Lawrence's Church, with no account of when either the name or the settlement itself began.
Where is Kirilapone?
Kirilapone spreads across a residential slice of Colombo, in Sri Lanka, with Havelock Park as its main piece of open ground.
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Updated September 2026