Flasou (2nd mill, Tou Shaaban Βey)

Type: Watermill
District: Nicosia
Village: Flasou
River: Karkotis
Location - Toponym: NA
Cadastral Info: Sheet/Plan 28/37W1; Plot: 163

Mill Description

The Shaaban Bey mill is located c. 500 m west of the Krommidhos mill and uses its water outflow. Three well-defined arches sitting directly on the bedrock support the leat, which is c. 20 m long. Two of these arches are pointed and one is round, suggesting that part of the leat was rebuilt at one time. The leat leads into a relatively small cylindrical chute, c. 55 cm in diameter, surrounded by a balustrade c. 50 cm high. The penstock is stepped in four tiers and faces west. The ruined mill house was built of 14 courses of irregular basalt river boulders with basalt chinking, topped with six courses of mudbrick and a ceiling originally supported by wooden beams. According to the miller of the Evrykhou mill, the Shaban Bey mill was famous as the most productive one in the area (a local rhyme celebrates this); it was still in use in the 1940s. S. Floridou (TAESP Volume 1: 275; Volume 2: 88)

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