Munster, Western Australia

Munster is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn.

Munster
Perth, Western Australia
Cockburn Cement, Munster
Coordinates32.142°S 115.798°E / -32.142; 115.798
Population199 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)6166
Area4.4 km2 (1.7 sq mi)[2]
Location28 km (17 mi) SW of Perth
LGA(s)City of Cockburn
State electorate(s)Cockburn
Federal division(s)Fremantle
Suburbs around Munster:
Lake Coogee Beeliar Beeliar
Henderson Munster Beeliar
Henderson Henderson Wattleup

History

The suburb was named in 1954 from the original name of Lake Coogee, being Lake Munster, which was named after Prince William, Earl of Munster, and later King William IV. The district had been known as South Coogee since the 1870s and this earlier name remains in use by older settlers of the area. The district contains the site of Thomas Peel's original settlement, the Clarence townsite, the first recorded land grants in the Cockburn area, and around Lake Coogee the remains of the cottages built by the Pensioner Guards in the 1880s. The Munster district is unique in the continuous occupation of the Anderson, Newman, and Sawle properties by those families since the last century.

In 1895 a postal directory mentioned that the suburb of Lake Munster was "also known as Coogee". In later years this name was applied more to the area north-west of the lake, while the rest of the area became known for postal purposes as Woodman Point and South Coogee in the 1950s. Munster was officially adopted as a suburb name in 1954.[3]

In 2019, the City of Cockburn approved a split of Munster, whereby the north-western part of the suburb became the new suburb of Lake Coogee while another part, in the south-west, was added to the suburb of Henderson. Only the eastern part of Munster remained part of the existing suburb. The changes came into effect on 30 March 2020.[4][5][6]

Geography

The suburb is bounded by Fancote Avenue to the north, Lorimer and Henderson Roads to the east, Russell Road to the south and Rockingham Road to the west.[7]

The suburb contains the Cockburn Cement works,[8] which has a significant impact on the surrounding land use (restricting the residential growth of the area). The Australian Marine Complex[9] was, until 2020, also partially located within the southern portion of the suburb, primarily the Technology Precinct (which includes Raytheon Australia, and a new TAFE facility - Australian Centre for Energy and Process Training (ACEPT) - South Metropolitan TAFE).

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Munster (Suburb and Locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
  2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "2021 Community Profiles: Munster (State Suburb)". 2021 Census of Population and Housing. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  3. "History of metropolitan suburb names – M". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2007.
  4. "New Suburb and Boundary Changes: Lake Coogee, Munster and Henderson". Comment on Cockburn. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  5. "Locality Boundary Amendments". City of Cockburn. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  6. Ben Smith (5 November 2019). "Suburb name change could boost property prices". Communitynews.com.au. Cockburn Gazette. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  7. "Locality Boundary Amendments Lake Coogee / Munster / Henderson". Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  8. Cockburn cement webpage
  9. AMC website

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