SNIPPET: It is widely known that today Gaelic is the musical mother tongue in parts of Connemara (Co. Galway) as it is on many of the offshore islands. Less know is that, ironically, Co. Meath today is the only county in the province of Leinster where the Gaelic tongue is still spoken. The Gaeltacht region in the parish of Rath Chairn near Athboy is not the result of the tenacity of a small group of the indigenous population, however, but stems from a social experiment of the 1930s in which families from the beautiful region of Connemara left their infertile, rocky and tiny parcels of land in the west to take up small-holdings on an estate which was divided among them.