The Irish songwriter John Lyons (b. 1934) wrote the popular song "The Kilkenny Louse House". The song contains the lines "Well we went up the stairs and we put out the light, Sure in less than five minutes, I had to show fight. For the fleas and the bugs they collected to march, And over me stomach they formed a great arch". It has been recorded by Christie Purcell (1952), Mary Delaney on "From Puck to Appleby" (2003), and the Dubliners on "Double Dubliners" (1972) among others.