  munster township is a township in cambria county, pennsylvania, united states. the population was 675 at the 2000 census. it is part of the johnstown, pennsylvania metropolitan statistical area. it was named after the province of munster in ireland according to some, because much of the original population was irish. alternatively, some believe munster was named by father gallitzin based on the memories of his time in the german province as boy prior to emigrating to america. ==geography== munster township is located approximately at geocoordinates 40.45n by 78.7w, about 11 miles ese of ebensburg and 14 miles west of altoona. according to the united states census bureau, the township has a total area of 14.2&nbsp;square miles (36.8&nbsp;kmÂ²), of which, 14.1&nbsp;square miles (36.6&nbsp;kmÂ²) of it is land and 0.1&nbsp;square miles (0.2&nbsp;kmÂ²) of it (0.42%) is water. ==demographics== as of the census of 2000, there were 675 people, 227 households, and 177 fa
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