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Maryknoll
Victoria
Population546 (2011 census)[1]
Established1950
Postcode(s)3812
Location
LGA(s)Shire of Cardinia
State electorate(s)Narracan
Federal division(s)McMillan
Localities around Maryknoll:
Nar Nar Goon North Tonimbuk Garfield North
Nar Nar Goon North Maryknoll Tynong North
Nar Nar Goon Nar Nar Goon Tynong North

Maryknoll is a town in Victoria, Australia, 61 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Cardinia. At the 2011 Census, Maryknoll had a population of 546.[1]

Maryknoll lies adjacent to Bunyip State Park, and is one of the youngest towns established in the Shire of Cardinia.

History

Father Pooley of the Catholic Church envisaged a new 600-acre (2.4 km2) religious intentional community in West Gippsland where residents could live rural lifestyles ideal for the raising of families and practice of the Catholic faith. The name Maryknoll replaced the original name of St Mary's in 1955, and the Maryknoll Post Office opened on 3 October 1955.[2] The original settlement consisted of about 30 families.

By the mid-1980s, the Maryknoll cooperative society formally closed, allowing non-Catholic residents to purchase land.

Father Wilfrid Pooley was a helping founder of Maryknoll. He was the leader of the plans and lived in Maryknoll for quite some time with a friend of his, Patrick Noonan.

Facilities

Facilities include a CFA, community hall, Catholic Church, milkbar and recreation reserve which contains Maryknoll Tennis Club and Nar Nar Goon-Maryknoll Cricket Club. Numerous forested parks and walking tracks are scattered throughout the locality. Maryknoll has no school, with children often commuting to Pakenham, Warragul, Drouin or other places for education. Maryknoll also has a lawn cemetery and a small pony club with twenty members attending.

Flora and fauna

Maryknoll is abundantly covered in forest, with eucalypts, wattles, banksias and sheoaks being common species. Ferns, pittosporum and introduced species can also be found, and types of rare orchids have been discovered in the area. Kangaroos, wombats and possums are very common native species, and koalas have been occasionally sighted. The area also has a deer problem, with wild herds inhabiting forests and Bunyip State Park.

References

  1. ^ a b "2011 Census QuickStats: Maryknoll". Australia Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  2. ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11

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Further reading

  • Maryknoll: History of a Catholic rural settlement by Gael White (2002)

38°01′55″S 145°36′07″E / 38.032°S 145.602°E / -38.032; 145.602

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