Baile Ghib
Gibbstown | |
|---|---|
Community | |
 Irish-language road sign on a road junction in Baile Ghib | |
  Baile Ghib | |
| Coordinates: 53°42′36″N 6°45′00″W / 53.71000°N 6.75000°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Meath |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 142 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Baile Ghib (anglicised as Gibbstown or Gibstown)[1] is a small village and Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) in County Meath, Ireland. It is about 70km northwest of Dublin city. Local Link bus route 186 was introduced in October 2024 and links the area several times daily to Kells and other villages in Meath & Cavan. [2]
The Baile Ghib Gaeltacht was founded in 1937 when 52 families were settled on land previously acquired by the Irish Land Commission, followed by a further 9 families in 1939 who settled in Clongill. In all 373 people moved to the area.[3][4]
Baile Ghib has since grown into a village with a GAA club (Bhulf Tón CLG), a village hall, a shop, a church, and a gaelscoil (primary school).
Today, it and the nearby area of Ráth Chairn make up the Meath Gaeltacht. At the 2022 census the villages of Ráth Chairn and Baile Ghib had a combined population of 420.[5] The Meath Gaeltacht had a population of 1,857 in 2016, representing 1.9% of the total population of Ireland's Gaeltacht.[6] According to the 2016 census 15.9% of the population of Baile Ghib and Ráth Chairn spoke Irish on a daily basis outside the education system.[7]
- ^ "Baile Ghib / Gibstown". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/10/21/new-bus-service-between-cavan-and-kells-launched/
- ^ "Meath's Gaeltacht Regions". Meath County Council. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "'The Forgotten Gaeltacht' – Meath's "colonists" feature in new film". Meath Chronicle. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "Background Notes - CSO - Central Statistics Office". www.cso.ie. 29 June 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "Meath | The Gaeltacht | Our Language & the Ghaeltacht". Údarás na Gaeltachta. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "Irish Language and the Gaeltacht - CSO - Central Statistics Office". www.cso.ie. Retrieved 22 September 2023.