Thomas Byrne was Dermot's 2nd great-grandfather and he died on 30 March 1891. The following is an article I found, which describes what happened to him.
Kildare Observer and Eastern Counties Advertiser 04 April 1891, page 5
FATALITY NEAR KILL
On Monday evening a man named Thomas Byrne was killed near the village of Kill by a fall from a cart. An inquest was held the following day by Dr Smyth, Coroner for North Kildare, at which Mary Byrne, the deceased man's wife deposed that her husband, who was 50 years of age, was in the employment of Mr de Burgh, of Oldtown. He had been at the Horse Show in Dublin, on Monday, with feeding stuff and was returning home when the accident occurred. When about a mile from Kill the horse ran away and her husband was thrown out of the cart. She found him lying on the road with his skull smashed. He was perfectly sober. The witness said the horse was an unmanageable animal. Thos. White, a labourer of Mr de Burgh's, who was in the dray with the deceased, said that the horse was leaping and frightened several times along the road. When the animal ran away he got out and caught it by the head and then returned to where Byrne was lying. Dr Coady, Johnstown, deposed that he had examined the body. The brains were lacerated and crushed and the vault of the skull separated from the rest of the body. He believed the man's death was caused by the wheel of the dray passing over his skull. Death was instantaneous.
The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
Thomas Byrne (1841-1891) married Mary Malone (1851-????).
Their daughter Ellen Byrne (1870-1925) married Richard Boushell (1867-1951) in 1892.
Their son Patrick Joseph Boushell (1895-1969) married Helen Clare Egan (1899-1986) in 1925.
Their daughter Mary Carmel Boushell (1926-1974) married Gerald Westhoff (1928-2012).
Their son is Dermot Westhoff (1957-living).
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