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Map of Barramunga, VIC 3249
Barramunga is a rural locality in the Shire of Colac Otway, Victoria, Australia. The small locality is located deep in the Otway Ranges, and is mostly forested. At the 2021 census, Barramunga had a population of 11.
The locality largely developed from the 1880s due to the growth of the local timber industry, with the area first being opened for timber selection in 1884, though a successful dairying industry also developed for several decades.
Barramunga State School opened in 1886 and a post office opened on 14 February 1887. A general store and a hotel, the Junction Hotel, both operated by W. F. Danaher, opened around 1888. The hotel was a meeting-place for local activities and interest groups for many years. The Junction Hotel burned down in a bushfire, along with a neighbouring house, in February 1893, was rebuilt, and narrowly escaped being burnt down again in another bushfire in 1898. There were also Methodist and Anglican churches at Barramunga at one time.
There was a local campaign to extend the Forrest railway line to Barramunga from the 1880s, but it was ultimately unsuccessful.
The locality declined over the course of the twentieth century as both the timber and dairying industries declined. The hotel was delicensed in 1929, though it continued to provide accommodation to itinerant workers, now as "Junction House". The last sawmill at Barramunga itself burned down in a bushfire in 1939 and did not reopen.
A new public hall opened during the 1950s, following a post-World War II resurgence in the timber industry.
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