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What the fuck are these outcropping towers called? Thank you in advance.

Flanking towers?

 

Flanking towers usually extend all the way to the ground, and tend to refer to towers that create flanks by not being at the corners. Bartizan looks more fitting, but that looks more like a little spy house on the corner of a castle, which could be one of the outcroppings, but isn't always.

Dude, those are just called wall towers.

They were used to look at the wall without peering directly down.

They need a medieval-ey Gaelic-sounding name. Wall Towers sounds stupid.

Well, that's what they're called. Bitch.

You can call them Ballista Spires.

They are called Bartizans or Echaugettes.

"A bartizan (or Echaugette) is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of medieval fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 16th century. They protect a warder and enable him to see around him."

Those ones in particular look like Echaugette's - the difference between bartizans and echaugette's is that echaugette's are referred to as only being part of a wall, while a bartizan can be disconnected and is a more general term. That's what it seems like to me.