Transaction in Own Shares

6th February 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 5th 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:

1,303

8,013

Highest price paid per share:

GBp 2,296.0000

€26.2700

Lowest price paid per share:

GBp 2,279.0000

€25.9800

Volume weighted average price paid:

GBp 2,287.4804

€26.0998

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 30,561,269 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 812,829,069 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

2,287.4804

1,303

Euronext Dublin

EUR

26.0998

8,013

London Stock Exchange

Number ofShares

Price per Share (GBp)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

380

2,279

LSE

08:16:56

330396

273

2,279

LSE

08:16:56

330394

450

2,296

LSE

09:06:47

388365

200

2,296

LSE

09:06:47

388363

Euronext Dublin

Number ofShares

Price per Share (EUR)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

187

26.01

ISE

08:17:13

330633

566

26.01

ISE

08:17:13

330631

323

26.01

ISE

08:17:13

330629

482

26.00

ISE

08:17:16

330683

495

25.98

ISE

08:25:44

339794

244

26.27

ISE

09:17:20

403480

332

26.27

ISE

09:17:20

403478

599

26.25

ISE

09:18:11

404580

559

26.05

ISE

15:09:16

761256

201

26.07

ISE

15:09:16

761254

338

26.07

ISE

15:09:16

761252

365

26.12

ISE

15:16:07

772681

435

26.12

ISE

15:16:08

772726

207

26.12

ISE

15:16:45

773623

387

26.12

ISE

15:16:45

773621

429

26.12

ISE

15:16:45

773608

108

26.12

ISE

15:16:45

773596

169

26.12

ISE

15:16:45

773592

565

26.13

ISE

15:23:49

785701

514

26.08

ISE

15:25:18

788722

130

26.12

ISE

15:30:42

797798

378

26.12

ISE

15:30:50

798012