Who they were, and when exactly they lived there, is not recorded. What remains is a rectangular drystone structure, set into the north-east quadrant of a larger enclosure on Rabbit Island, a detail quietly noted in the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula without much elaboration.

Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful fitting of stones, was employed in Ireland across many centuries, making such structures notoriously difficult to date without excavation. The lintelled entrance, a flat stone laid horizontally across the top of a doorway opening, is a common feature of early historic and medieval island buildings along the western seaboard, where communities sometimes maintained small hermitages, fishing stations, or seasonal shelters. The fact that the hut sits within the north-east section of a wider site suggests it was part of something larger, perhaps an enclosure containing other features now lost or unrecorded. The Iveragh Peninsula, which forms the central finger of land in south Kerry, has one of the densest concentrations of early medieval archaeology in Ireland, much of it clustered on its islands and coastal headlands. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented this particular structure in their 1996 survey of the peninsula, published by Cork University Press, which remains a key reference for the region's field archaeology.