Baile Ghib (anglicised as Gibbstown or Gibstown)[1] is a small village and Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) in County Meath, Ireland.

[5] 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.

It was also a social experiment to redress the 17th-century ethnic cleansing of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell’s draconian action ‘To hell or Connaught’.

Due to the limited size of the Gaeltacht the difficulty of providing services in Irish made bilingualism necessary.

[7][8][9] The Baile Ghib Gaeltacht was founded in 1937, when Irish-speaking families from Mayo, Kerry, Donegal and Cork Gaeltachtaí settled in the area.