Folly (disambiguation)

A folly is a decorative building.

Folly most often also refers to:

• Foolishness, the lack of wisdom
• Folly fort, a military fort built on water near a shore

Folly may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Folly (allegory), a common allegorical figure in medieval morality plays and in allegorical artwork through the Renaissance
• Folly (band), a band from Sussex, New Jersey
• Folly, an 1886 statue by Edward Onslow Ford
• Folly, a 1994 novel by Susan Minot
• Folly (magazine), a literary magazine from New Zealand

Places

New Zealand

• Folly Island, New Zealand, in the Campbell Island group

United States

• Folly, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Folly (Staunton, Virginia), a historic plantation house
• Folly Island, a barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina

Rivers in England

• Folly Brook, Barnet, London
• Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Frome, Bristol
• Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Clun, Shropshire

Other uses

• Tree ring (landscape feature), also once popularly called a folly, a decorative feature of 18th and early 19th century planned landscapes in Britain and Ireland
• Folly (color), a color one-fourth of the way between crimson and rose, closer to crimson than to rose
• Folly (SP-1453), a sailing schooner that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during World War I
• Yoann Folly (born 1985), French-born Togolese football player

See also

• Seward's Folly, another name for the purchase of Alaska
• Folie (disambiguation)
• Follies (disambiguation)
• Foley (disambiguation)
• FoLLI, an international, especially European, learned society