Sengottai is a
municipality in the
Tirunelveli district, of
Tamil Nadu,
India. Spread over an area of 2.68 square kilometers with a population of over 26,838, the economy of the town revolves around the cultivation of rice. The word
Sengottai means
red fort in
Tamil. There is fort like structure on the entrance of this town. Sengottai is also spelt as Chenkottai, and other similarly-pronounced variants, and is roughly 8km from the
Courtallam waterfalls. , the town had a population of 26,823.