The one at Hoddersfield, near the road between Carrigaline and Crosshaven in County Cork, is a different creature entirely. Rather than a simple marker, it carries a full inscription, part legal declaration and part personal grievance, in which a man took the trouble to set his complaint in stone and date it precisely to the first day of January 1715.

The inscription, recorded by Ó Murchadha in 1967, reads in its original spelling: "The Road West here of leading from Carrigaline to Cross Haven is part of the lands of Kilcrow Belonging to Captain William Hodder which being left out of his paddock he has sett up this stone as a perpetuall monument of his right to the inheritance thereof this 1st day of January 1715." The text tells its own story with admirable economy. A stretch of road had apparently been carved through or alongside Hodder's paddock on the lands of Kilcrow, and rather than simply accept the encroachment, Captain William Hodder responded by erecting a permanent, inscribed record of his ownership. The phrasing, "perpetuall monument of his right," has the ring of a man who wanted future generations, not just his immediate neighbours, to understand exactly where things stood. The place name Hoddersfield itself suggests the family had a significant presence in the area, though the stone represents one of those moments when a private dispute between a landowner and, presumably, a road authority or neighbouring interest has accidentally preserved itself as a piece of local social history.