Transaction in Own Shares

CRH PLC

16 June 2023

16^th June 2023

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ('CRH') announces that on 15^th June 2023 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the 'ordinary shares') on the Euronext Dublin and/or London Stock Exchange (as applicable), from CRH's broker UBS. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

Euronext Dublin

London Stock Exchange

Number of ordinary shares purchased:

1,666

758

Highest price paid per share:

€47.9300

GBp 4,039.0000

Lowest price paid per share:

€46.8900

GBp 4,032.0000

Volume weighted average price paid:

€47.1925

GBp 4,036.2982

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to $750 million* in the period to 29^th June 2023 following its announcement on 31^st March 2023 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Programme announced on 31^st March 2023.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 21,606,485 of its ordinary shares in treasury which represents 2.873% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights. Following settlement, CRH will have 730,533,853 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the 'Market Abuse Regulation') (including as it forms part of retained EU law in the United Kingdom ('UK') from time to time and, where relevant, pursuant to the UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the UK's Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made on 15^th June 2023 by UBS on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

*Being an amount equal to €690 million (based on a FX Rate of $1:€0.92 fixed for the duration of the buyback programme).

Contact

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

Issuer name:

CRH plc

LEI

549300MIDJNNTH068E74

ISIN:

IE0001827041

Intermediary name:

UBS Europe SE

Intermediary code:

UBSWDE24

Time zone:

BST

Currency:

EUR & GBp (as indicated below)

Date of Transactions:

14/06/2023

Aggregated Information

Trading venue

Currency

Volume Weighted Average Price

Aggregated volume

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

EUR

47.1925

1,666

London Stock Exchange (XLON)

GBp

4,036.2982

758

London Stock Exchange

Number of
Shares

Price per Share (GBp)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

164

4,032

LSE