Orur
Village in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
Orur (sometimes spelled Oriyur or Oreiour) is a small village located in Tiruvadanai taluk, Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated 35 km from Devakottai, Sivagangai. As of the 2011 Census of India, the village had a population of 5,065 across 1,171 households. There were 2,470 males and 2,595 females.
The Christian saint John de Britto, a Portuguese Jesuit known as Arulanandar in Tamil, was martyred at Orur in 1693. There is a shrine to Britto in the village, where he is a significant figure revered by the Kallar, Maravar and Agamudayar castes.
St. Arul Anandar School
St. Arul Anandar School, Oriyur is a private Catholic secondary school located in the village. Founded by the Jesuits in 1908, the school educates students from grade 6 through to grade 12.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Orur” is village in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Orur, Village and Ramanathapuram, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “village in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7102905. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1693 and 1908.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Orur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.