Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9691B

CRH PLC

05 November 2009

5th November 2009

RE-ISSUE OF TREASURY SHARES

CRH plc announces that on 4th November 2009 it transferred to participants in its employee share schemes 10,665 Ordinary Shares at prices between €11.8573 and €15.5646 and at prices of £8.7104 and £14.1386 per Ordinary Share.

Following the above transactions, CRH plc holds 13,165,861 Ordinary Shares in Treasury. The number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) is 697,320,059.