Transaction in Own Shares

10th January 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 9th January 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:

6,822

13,727

Highest price paid per share:

GBp 2,216.0000

€24.6500

Lowest price paid per share:

GBp 2,172.0000

€24.1200

Volume weighted average price paid:

GBp 2,190.8264

€24.4034

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 28,285,851 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 815,104,487 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

2,190.8264

6,822

Euronext Dublin

EUR

24.4034

13,727

London Stock Exchange

Number ofShares

Price per Share (GBp)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

200

2,172

LSE

08:21:55

799617

88

2,172

LSE

08:21:55

799615

123

2,172

LSE

08:21:58

799672

179

2,172

LSE

08:21:58

799670

100

2,176

LSE

08:26:25

806143

593

2,177

LSE

08:26:59

807026

115

2,174

LSE

08:30:48

813064

587

2,174

LSE

08:30:48

813062

344

2,181

LSE

08:34:33

818460

363

2,181

LSE

08:34:33

818462

599

2,185

LSE

08:38:47

824226

599

2,192

LSE

08:44:09

835900

667

2,198

LSE

09:04:40

868610

604

2,200

LSE

09:22:16

890745

100

2,203

LSE

09:30:08

900568

250

2,203

LSE

09:30:08

900566

88

2,203

LSE

09:30:08

900564

587

2,209

LSE

09:34:44

906741

636

2,216

LSE

09:40:15

915064

Euronext Dublin

Number ofShares

Price per Share (EUR)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

113

24.14

ISE

08:21:49

799365

369

24.13

ISE

08:21:55

799613

89

24.13

ISE

08:21:55

799605

10

24.13

ISE

08:21:55

799601

287

24.12

ISE

08:22:14

800179

193

24.12

ISE

08:22:14

800172

40

24.17

ISE

08:24:09

803144

499

24.19

ISE

08:25:13

804790

472

24.19

ISE

08:25:13

804786

184

24.19

ISE

08:30:48

813060

256

24.19

ISE

08:30:48

813054

497

24.25

ISE

08:34:42

818664

494

24.26

ISE

08:34:42

818640

458

24.26

ISE

08:34:42

818638

167

24.38

ISE

08:42:41

830605

516

24.39

ISE

08:43:01

831311

354

24.40

ISE

08:44:19

836598

188

24.40

ISE

08:44:19

836596

68

24.40

ISE

08:46:51

841027

27

24.40

ISE

08:46:51

841025

314

24.40

ISE

08:46:51

841023

87

24.40

ISE

08:46:51

841021

537

24.39

ISE

08:46:52

841037

197

24.48

ISE

09:04:40

868620

243

24.48

ISE

09:04:40

868617

528

24.47

ISE

09:04:41

868651

537

24.48

ISE

09:11:44

877298

480

24.47

ISE

09:14:39

880727

535

24.47

ISE

09:14:39

880725

840

24.47

ISE

09:17:40

884378

530

24.47

ISE

09:22:16

890747

531

24.46

ISE

09:22:17

890764

995

24.50

ISE

09:29:08

899385

529

24.56

ISE

09:36:21

908898

502

24.64

ISE

09:40:15

915068

101

24.62

ISE

09:41:27

916911

408

24.62

ISE

09:41:27

916909

29

24.65

ISE

09:43:40

920159

29

24.65

ISE

09:43:40

920157

494

24.64

ISE

09:43:51

920375