Kopay (Tamil: கோப்பாய், romanized: Kōppāy) is a Sri Lankan town about 4 km from the city of Jaffna along Point Pedro road.

An agricultural town consisting mainly of vegetable farms, paddy fields and coconut gardens.

Kopay Christian College is one of the oldest schools in Jaffna with 150 years of service remain unbeaten in producing quality scholars.

This cemetery was destroyed by the Sri Lankan armed forces in 1996 after they captured the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE.

[3] The Arya Cakravartti, Kings of Jaffna, for the purpose of defending their country against all enemies had forts erected at Nallur and Kopay.

It is only about 4 km from Nallur, a place known from the Chola times and which was the capital of the Kings of Jaffna till the advent of Portuguese.

The strategic position of Kopay made the King to choose it as an important defence centre in times of war.

According to Joao Ribeiro (Army Captain) the Portuguese historian and Sir Paul E. Pieris, in 1560 when King Cankili Raja (I) Segarasasekaram’s forces launched repeated onslaughts against the fort at Kopay, they used ladders made of arecanut trees to scale the walls of the citadel.

[4] Kopay Christian College was founded in 1852 and it is one of the oldest High Schools in Sri Lanka established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

With the financial help of Dr Aaru Thirumurugan along with Sivayogam Trust – London Muthumari Amman Temple, and donation from former Hindu Affairs Minister T. Maheswaran, NCOE is re-established in December 2004.