Transaction in Own Shares

29th February 2012

RE-ISSUE OF TREASURY SHARES

CRH plc announces that today it transferred to a participant in an employee share scheme 2,545 Ordinary Shares at a price of €11.8573 per Ordinary Share.

CRH plc also announces that today it transferred to the Trustees of the CRH plc Employee Benefit Trust 226,617 Ordinary Shares at a price of €15.82 per Ordinary Share for the purpose of satisfying awards made under the CRH 2006 Performance Share Plan.

Following the above transactions, CRH plc holds 8,660,373 Ordinary Shares in Treasury. The number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) is 719,237,533.

Contact

Neil Colgan

Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

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