It is a help when tracing your family history to know something about the origin of and evolution of Irish names and particularly how names have changed over the centuries.
Repayment mortgage. With repayment mortgages you pay the interest and part of the capital off every month. At the end of the term, typically 25 years, you should manage to have paid it all off and own your home.
The monthly payments are the payments that you make toward the principal and the interest to pay off the loan. A fixed rate mortgage is a fully amortizing loan. That means that the principal and interest combine so that the full amount of the loan is paid off after a set amount of years.