This temple is at Thirunarayanapuram in Palakkad district. According to legends, the eldest male member of the Kizhiyedathu mana used to go to the Bhagavathy temple at Kodungaloor every month to worship the Goddess. As he became old the journey became difficult for him. One day, as he lay down to sleep before leaving the temple in the morning, he spoke about his inability to visit the temple anymore. That night, he had a dream in which a female figure, clad in silks and gold, appeared before him and told him that she had taken residence in his upper cloth, uthareeyam. She instructed more him to take it carefully with him and offer worship. Accordingly, he carried the cloth and travelled to his house. Before reaching there, night fell, and he kept the umbrella and the cloth on the steps of a pond to wash himself and offer prayers. When he came out, both the umbrella and the cloth had disappeared. He entrusted a Nair in the neighbourhood to search for them and went to his house. There, he saw the cloth in the eastern prayer room. Soon, the Nair informed him that the umbrella was seen on the north-eastern bank of the pond at the Vishnu temple at the base of the Panthalangadan mountain, but it had been fixed to the spot. After astrological consultations, it was decided that the Bhagavathy in the cloth would be worshipped in the house, while a temple would be constructed at the spot where the umbrella had been seen. The Namboothiri would offer pujas at home, while the Nair was entrusted with offering worship at the temple. As the Goddess had travelled in the uthareeyam, it came to be referred to as Uthareeyathil Kavu and later as Uthrathil Kavu. Later, the Namboothiris had to offer the pujas at the temple also, as the Nairs were not doing it properly.  As the temple fell into ruin, it was renovated. It was under the Hindu Board for some time before being taken over by the Malabar Devaswam Board.