Irish Sweathouses and the Great Forgetting

To celebrate 20 years of the Megalithic Portal, we'll be rerunning a selection of our news items from 20 years ago. Here's one from June 2001 highlighting an article by Anthony Weir which is still online. A fascinating article from Anthony Weir: Are Irish sweathouses a continuation of a prehistoric tradition of inhaling consciousness-altering smoke, recently overlaid with the prophylactic function of saunas ?
Cannabis is not likely to have been used in Ireland for a millennium at least, but a much more seriously-numinous means of widening the awareness is still to be found all over the island: Psilocybe lanceolata, or "magic mushrooms"....