Transaction in Own Shares

1st March 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 28th February 2019 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the "ordinary shares") on the London Stock Exchange and/or Euronext Dublin, from CRH's broker UBS Limited. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

London Stock Exchange

Euronext Dublin

Number of ordinary shares purchased:

2,291

2,901

Highest price paid per share:

GBp 2,383.0000

€27.7000

Lowest price paid per share:

GBp 2,370.0000

€27.4700

Volume weighted average price paid:

GBp 2,377.3457

€27.6102

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to €1 billion over a 12 month period following its announcement on 25th April 2018 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Phase 4 Programme announced on 28th December 2018.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 32,057,086 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 811,333,252 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made by UBS Limited on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

Contact:

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

Issuer name:

CRH plc

LEI

549300MIDJNNTH068E74

ISIN:

IE0001827041

Intermediary name:

UBS Limited

Intermediary code:

UBSWGB24

Time zone:

BST

Currency:

GBp & EUR (as indicated below)

Aggregated Information

Trading venue

Currency

Volume Weighted Average Price

Aggregated volume

London Stock Exchange

GBp

2,377.3457

2,291

Euronext Dublin

EUR

27.6102

2,901

London Stock Exchange

Number ofShares

Price per Share (GBp)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

73

2,370

LSE

16:01:22

1435313

546

2,372

LSE

16:02:05

1436622

129

2,372

LSE

16:02:05

1436620

674

2,383

LSE

16:05:19

1443188

10

2,377

LSE

16:08:25

1449557

225

2,377

LSE

16:08:25

1449555

372

2,378

LSE

16:10:08

1453376

170

2,378

LSE

16:10:08

1453374

6

2,378

LSE

16:10:08

1453371

57

2,378

LSE

16:10:08

1453369

29

2,378

LSE

16:10:08

1453366

Euronext Dublin

Number ofShares

Price per Share (EUR)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

57

27.51

ISE

10:55:49

1077521

33

27.51

ISE

10:55:49

1077519

51

27.51

ISE

10:55:49

1077517

43

27.51

ISE

10:55:49

1077515

46

27.51

ISE

10:55:59

1077623

152

27.51

ISE

10:55:59

1077621

88

27.51

ISE

10:55:59

1077619

49

27.47

ISE

10:56:39

1078032

560

27.61

ISE

10:59:45

1080522

564

27.70

ISE

11:32:39

1104989

191

27.70

ISE

11:34:16

1106115

317

27.70

ISE

11:34:48

1106450

65

27.70

ISE

11:35:13

1106754

80

27.70

ISE

11:35:18

1106834

83

27.70

ISE

11:35:50

1107279

522

27.49

ISE

12:26:42

1145383