Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 1693J

CRH PLC

28 November 2008

CRH plc ('the Company') Voting Rights and Capital

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In conformity with Regulation 20 of the Transparency (Directive

2004/109/EC) Regulations 2007, CRH plc announces that:

The total number of Ordinary Shares of €0.32 each in issue as
at the date of this notice is 548,502,378. As at 28th November
2008, the Company holds 16,420,298 Treasury Shares.

The total number of voting rights is, therefore, 532,082,080.

The above figure 532,082,080 may be used by shareholders as the
denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, CRH plc under the Transparency (Directive 2004/109/EC) Regulations 2007 and the Interim Transparency
Rules.