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Enclosure:
Transaction in Own Shares
16th January
2020
RE-ISSUE OF TREASURY SHARES
CRH plc announces that yesterday, 15th January
2020, it transferred to participants in its employee share
schemes 4,854 Ordinary Shares at prices of €17.67 and
€20.825 per Ordinary Share and a price of £14.94 per
Ordinary Share.
Following the above transactions, CRH plc holds 10,747,066 Shares
in Treasury. The number of Ordinary Shares in issue
(excluding Treasury Shares) is 788,893,272.
Contact
Diarmuid Enright
Assistant Company Secretary
Tel: 003531 6344340
SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
